Re: kernel list / container_of aka list_entry question

[Fawad Lateef]

On 12/25/05, Mateusz Berezecki <mateuszb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/25/05, Michael Buesch <mbuesch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > >         list_for_each(iterator, &priv->rxbuf.list) {
> > > >                 struct ath_buf *bf = list_entry(iterator, (struct ath_buf), list);
> >                                                               ^              ^
> > Remove the parenthesis.
>
> yikes. that helped. but it's somewhat weird IMHO... why ((struct foo)
> *) wont work?
> and it needs to be (struct foo *) ?
>

What I can say is that compiler will consider the construct like
(struct foo *)  as this (struct foo)* will be making compiler confused
that (struct foo) is type-casting and the * might be for deferencing
the pointer but as * is also in a bracket and wont follow any pointer
thats why compiler is giving error. (CMIIW)

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Fawad Lateef
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