On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:06:36AM +0530, Allen Pais wrote: > Introduce container_from() as a generic helper instead of > sub-systems defining a private from_* API > (Eg: from_tasklets recently introduced in > 12cc923f1ccc: Tasklet: Introduce new initialization API) > > The helper is similar to container_of() in argument order > with the difference of naming the containing structure instead > of having to specify its type. > > Suggested-by: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]> > Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Suggested-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Allen Pais <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Who can carry this so it can get used by multiple trees? Should I keep a git branch folks should merge when taking Allen's conversion patches? (In the future we can do a treewide replacement of the subsystem-specific from*() macros into container_from()) Thanks! -- Kees Cook
