Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:17:39 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: kobj_to_dev ? |
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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,
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