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SubjectRe: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety
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Hi,

On Saturday 02 December 2006 17:02, 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?

sysfs is a major bloat indeed, but that's not it.
If at all this generates smaller code, as only one pointer is needed instead
of two.

bye, Roman
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