Re: Converting struct timer_list callback argument to struct timer_list *

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Sep 04 2017 - 02:07:54 EST


On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 01:18:44PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> It feels weird to have different semantics from container_of() too, so
> I'll probably just switch everything around to be like all the others,
> in that they are just direct wrappers around container_of()... I'll
> settle on something and switch everything over.

I really like the idea of passing in a variable and not the type,
though. Maybe we need to add a new generic helper for that, I just
can't think of a good name.