Re: [RFC] timers, pointers to functions and type safety

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 18:19 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > This is going to make a lot of data structures smaller, when the
> > timer_list is embedded in the structure itself and for the lot, which
> > ignores the timer callback argument anyway.
> 
> container_of => still lousy type safety.  All over the sodding place.

Not less than timer->data, where timer data is void *

	tglx


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