Re: [PATCH] Add to_delayed_work macro

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:29:52 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:34:40 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > +#define to_delayed_work(_work)	container_of(_work, struct delayed_work, work)
> 
> As this is specifically designed to operate on a `struct work*', as
> opposed to "any struct which has a field called `work'", we can get
> additional type-safety by putting a C interface around it.

This is what I wanted to do in the first place, but then I noticed that
_all_ such wrappers around container_of are implemented as macros
rather than inline functions. So I decided to follow the crowd. Any
idea why it is so?

I will resend a new patch implementing to_delayed_work as an inline
function.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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