On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 12:14 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > I just copied it from skb_put() - you could ask the same there? :) > > My taste is to have less casts. Never understood why so many skb_ > functions returned char *, probably a leftover from older Unix style.
I agree, for many of them it's awkward and I often just put a (void *) cast in there ... I guess we can just make them void, and if anyone wants it I can easily cook up an spatch to remove casts. johannes
