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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add to_delayed_work macro
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:29:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090303002952.80f1afc8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090303083440.57df68c3@hyperion.delvare>

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:34:40 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:

> +#define to_delayed_work(_work)	container_of(_work, struct delayed_work, work)

As this is specifically designed to operate on a `struct work*', as
opposed to "any struct which has a field called `work'", we can get
additional type-safety by putting a C interface around it.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-03  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03  7:34 [PATCH] Add to_delayed_work macro Jean Delvare
2009-03-03  8:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-03-03  9:22   ` Jean Delvare
2009-03-03 15:32     ` Stefan Richter
2009-03-03 15:46       ` Jean Delvare
2009-03-03 12:06   ` [PATCH] Add to_delayed_work helper function Jean Delvare
2009-03-03 12:11     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-03 13:28       ` Jean Delvare

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