[ofw] RE: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2/6] [ib-diag] ibroute: add support for WinOF

[Sean Hefty]

>Sean: For this purpose casting to (char *) is somewhat sketchy, it
>should be (uint8_t *).. char should only ever be used for strings due
>to possible troubles with environments using 16 bit chars for wide
>character support.

I'm not aware of any environments that define char as anything other than a
byte, but I can change this.