On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:22:44PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the question is: which is more important, the type safety of a > > container_of() [or type cast], which if we get it wrong produces a > > /very/ trivial crash that is trivial to fix
The hell it is. You get wrong fields of a big struct read and modified. Silently. Besides, I can show you fsckloads of cases when we do *NOT* pass a pointer to struct the timer is embedded into. Some of them called directly (and no, the thing they get as argument doesn't point to anything that would contain a timer_list). > > structure size all around the kernel? I believe the latter is more > > important. > > Indeed yes. Guys, please, look at actual users of that stuff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
