On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:48:51AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig > > Sent: 16 May 2017 12:48 > > > > The new callback gets a pointer to the timer_list itself, which can > > then be used to get the containing structure using container_of > > instead of casting from and to unsigned long all the time. > > What about sensible drivers that put some other value in the 'data' > field? They will add the equivalent of the data field into the containing structure of the timer. Just like we do for all other kernel interfaces using the container_of patter, which includes just about every primitive designed in the last 15 years. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
