fix incompatible-pointer-types that triggers up in 4.6

[transforward.git] / transforward.c

diff --git a/transforward.c b/transforward.c
index 0537f18..3ca7020 100644 (file)
--- a/transforward.c
+++ b/transforward.c
@@ -108,7 +108,11 @@ static int init_probes(void)
         return ret;
 }
 
-int procfile_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer, unsigned long count, void *data) {           
+/*  as per http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/2.4/html/c577.htm
+    the declaration of write in the file_operations struct reads:
+    ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
+*/
+ssize_t procfile_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *data) {            
        if (!once_only) {
                once_only=1;
                if (init_probes()==-1)