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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: phillips@arcor.de, wli@holomorphy.com, rml@tech9.net,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection.
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:13:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903231330.C6848@kushida.apsleyroad.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020902.030553.14354294.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:05:53AM -0700

David S. Miller wrote:
> A list node is markably different from "the list" itself.
> 
> A "list" is the whole of all the nodes on the list, not just one
> of them.

Quite.

And that is why there should be _two_ types:

     1. struct list
     2. struct list_node

With these two types, `list_add' et al. can actually _check_ that you
got the arguments the right way around.

-- Jamie

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-03 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-02  5:23 Rusty Russell
2002-09-02  5:51 ` Robert Love
2002-09-02  6:02   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-02  6:20     ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:11       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:05         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:16           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:11             ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:25               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:21                 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:24           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-03 22:13           ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2002-09-03 23:14             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04  0:41               ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04  1:52                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-04  2:26                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04  2:44                     ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 14:36                       ` J.A. Magallon
2002-09-04  6:11                   ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-02  6:23     ` Neil Brown
2002-09-01 20:45       ` Nick Piggin
2002-09-02  6:27       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-02 10:07       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:05     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02  6:17   ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06  9:28 ` Dan Aloni
2002-09-06 14:35   ` Robert Love
2002-09-09  5:57   ` Rusty Russell

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