Re: [PATCH] netfs: Use container_of() for offset casting

[David Howells]

David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can't you just name the structure so it is:
> 
> 	struct afs_vnode {
>  		struct netfs_i_c_pair {
>  			/* These must be contiguous */
>  			struct inode	vfs_inode;
>  			struct netfs_i_context netfs_ctx;
>  		};
>  		...
>  	};

No.  C won't let you do that (the same thing has to be done in 9p, ceph as
well, and at some point hopefully cifs and nfs too).

David