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SubjectRe: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety
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On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 09:02 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:45:12PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > What's the cruft ?
> >
> > struct bla = container_of(timer, struct bla, timer); ???
>
> That's it, right there. Any idea how much we've bloated the kernel with
> sysfs, just by insisting that the struct device not be the first item in
> the struct? There's any number of 2- and 3- line functions calling each
> other, each adding and subtracting constants from the pointers passed to
> them. This was a huge mistake, IMO.

What a nonsense.

foo->timer.data = foo;

is complete redundant information.

This is going to make a lot of data structures smaller, when the
timer_list is embedded in the structure itself and for the lot, which
ignores the timer callback argument anyway.

tglx



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