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DateMon, 07 Jan 2002 16:58:48 -0500
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: PATCH 2.5.2.9: ext2 unbork fs.h (part 1/7)
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> Em Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:32:40PM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu:
> > I am very much interested in a better solution...  I could not figure
> > out how to get a private pointer from a struct inode*, without using a
> > nasty OFFSET_OF macro or a pointer to self as I implemented.
> 
> Why nasty, don't you like the list_head macros? 8) BTW, thats how Linus
> suggested it to be done in private conversation. Look at list_entry.

Yep, sorry Linus :)  I just much prefer inserting the back-ref at object
creation time to pointer arithmetic...  that way there is no type
information lost, and it gives the compiler a better opportunity to see
the relationship between the two structs.

	Jeff


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