Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:29:52 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
       David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add to_delayed_work macro
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:34:40 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:

> +#define to_delayed_work(_work)	container_of(_work, struct delayed_work, work)

As this is specifically designed to operate on a `struct work*', as
opposed to "any struct which has a field called `work'", we can get
additional type-safety by putting a C interface around it.

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