Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] drm/vc4: Switch to container_of_const

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>]

Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> writes:

Hello Maxime,

> container_of_const() allows to preserve the pointer constness and is
> thus more flexible than inline functions.
>
> Let's switch all our instances of container_of() to
> container_of_const().
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
> ---

[...]

> -static inline struct vc4_dpi *
> -to_vc4_dpi(struct drm_encoder *encoder)
> -{
> -	return container_of(encoder, struct vc4_dpi, encoder.base);
> -}
> +#define to_vc4_dpi(_encoder)						\
> +	container_of_const(_encoder, struct vc4_dpi, encoder.base)
>

A disadvantage of this approach though is that the type checking is lost.
Since you already had these, I would probably had changed them to return
a const pointer and just replace container_of() for container_of_const().

But I see that there are a lot of patches from Greg all over the kernel
that do exactly this, dropping static inline functions in favor of using
container_of_const() directly. So it seems the convention is what you do.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>

-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat