Re: [very-RFC 5/8] Add TSN machinery to drive the traffic from a shim over the network

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2016-06-12 at 00:22 +0200, Henrik Austad wrote:
> From: Henrik Austad <haustad@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In short summary:
> 
> * tsn_core.c is the main driver of tsn, all new links go through
>   here and all data to/form the shims are handled here
>   core also manages the shim-interface.
[]
> diff --git a/net/tsn/tsn_configfs.c b/net/tsn/tsn_configfs.c
[]
> +static inline struct tsn_link *to_tsn_link(struct config_item *item)
> +{
> +	/* this line causes checkpatch to WARN. making checkpatch happy,
> +	 * makes code messy..
> +	 */
> +	return item ? container_of(to_config_group(item), struct tsn_link, group) : NULL;
> +}

How about

static inline struct tsn_link *to_tsn_link(struct config_item *item)
{
	if (!item)
		return NULL;
	return container_of(to_config_group(item), struct tsn_link, group);
}