Re: [PATCH v4] staging: usbip: replace pr_warning() with dev_warn().

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:19:31AM +0530, navin patidar wrote:
> >> -        pr_warning("Unable to start control thread\n");
> >> +        struct device *dev;
> >> +
> >> +        if (ud->side == USBIP_STUB)
> >> +            dev = &container_of(ud, struct stub_device, ud)->udev->dev;
> >> +        else
> >> +            dev = &container_of(ud, struct vhci_device, ud)->udev->dev;
> >
> > Putting '&' in front of container_of seems odd, are you sure it's needed
> > here?  If ud is a pointer, everything else should "just work" properly
> > without that.
> 
> Removing '&'   caused following error.
> drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c: In function ‘usbip_start_eh’:
> drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c:93:8: error: incompatible types
> when assigning to type ‘struct device *’ from type ‘struct device’
> drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c:95:8: error: incompatible types
> when assigning to type ‘struct device *’ from type ‘struct device’
> 
> dev needs to be initialized with address of dev (struct device ) which
> is member of struct usb_device pointed by the udev.
> 
> To make it more clear i can change it to
> 
> dev = &(container_of(ud, struct vhci_device, ud)->udev->dev);
> 
>  or
> 
> struct vhci_device *vdev = container_of(ud, struct vhci_device, ud);
> dev = &(vdev->udev->dev);

Or perhaps:
	dev = container_of(ud, struct stub_device, ud).udev->dev;

or ->udev.dev; I don't remember which, but that should work, right?

greg k-h