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SubjectRe: kobj_to_dev ?
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:32:29PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> Hi Greg, could this be added to device.h:
>
> --- 1.112/include/linux/device.h Wed Jan 7 23:58:16 2004
> +++ edited/include/linux/device.h Fri Jan 16 17:35:04 2004
> @@ -279,6 +279,8 @@
> void (*release)(struct device * dev);
> };
>
> +#define kobj_to_dev(k) container_of((k), struct device, kobj)
> +
> static inline struct device *
> list_to_dev(struct list_head *node)
> {
>
> I'm using it as the following (inspired by find_bus), and it seems like
> it would make sense to put in device.h.

How about just adding a find_device() function to the driver core, where
you pass in a name and a type, so that others can use it?

> As a side node, since those #defines don't to type-checking, would it
> make sense to name them with both types? E.g. "kobj_to_dev" instead of
> just "to_dev"?

The compiler does the typechecking for you :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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