From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964850AbWGHOQd (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:16:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964851AbWGHOQd (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:16:33 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:6844 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964850AbWGHOQd (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 10:16:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce list_get() and list_get_tail() From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andi Kleen Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <200607080124.21856.dtor@insightbb.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:16:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1152368186.3120.50.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 15:58 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov writes: > > > From: Dmitry Torokhov > > > > Add primitives to access first and last elements of a list instead > > of accessng pointers directly. > > Wouldn't that be beter named list_first() and list_last() then? > _get is like _do and usually not very descriptive. and _get tends to imply a reference count as well; I'm with Andi on this.. list_first() and list_last()