[ovs-dev] [PATCH 03/12] datapath: Correct usage of __user annotation.

[Jesse Gross]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:52:58PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> We generally have been using the __user annotation but there were
>> a few places where it was missing or needed a cast.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>
> It's really sad to add so many casts.  I'm glad that the Netlink
> conversion will get rid of these.

I agree.  Between this type of stuff and all of the CONFIG_COMPAT
code, this portion the kernel code is getting pretty ugly.