[PULL] typesafe callbacks

[PULL] typesafe callbacks

[Rusty Russell]

As featured in linux-next for at least two full revs, and posted here.
Allows (but doesn't require) various callbacks to be the correct type
instead of void *.

kthread and timers for the moment, stop_machine and request_irq are
blocked pending textual clashes.

Added __attribute__((printf)) to kthread_create to this batch: textual
conflicts otherwise.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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The following changes since commit 50515af207d410c9f228380e529c56f43c3de0bd:
  David Woodhouse (1):
        firmware: Correct dependency on CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR

are available in the git repository at:

  ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git master

Rusty Russell (5):
      cast_if_type: allow macros functions which take more than one type.
      typesafe_cb: wrappers for typesafe callbacks.
      Label kthread_create() with printf attribute tag.
      typesafe: kthread_create and kthread_run
      typesafe: TIMER_INITIALIZER and setup_timer

 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h   |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/compiler-intel.h |    2 ++
 include/linux/kernel.h         |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/kthread.h        |   29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 include/linux/timer.h          |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 kernel/kthread.c               |   29 +++++------------------------
 6 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)