From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: haojian.zhuang@gmail.com (Haojian Zhuang)
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:26:27 +0800
Subject: How to set work_struct data
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Pankaj B <xpankajbx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Current INIT_WORK() macro takes just work_struct pointer and function
> pointer.
> In previous kernels there used to be a third parameter for data.
> Is there a proper way to set data in work_struct?
>
Embed the work_struct into your structure. Then use container_of() to get the
structure in work function. So you can add anything into your structure.

> Thanks
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