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SubjectRe: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:22:44PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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.
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