From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: sepreece@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] list.h doc: change "counter" to "control"
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:05:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060519090500.6a3958dd.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060519090236.ef9b5c81.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 10:37:28 -0500 Scott Preece wrote:
>
> > I agree that "counter" is wrong, but "control" is still a little
> > vague. How about:
> > "the &struct list_head that tracks iteration over the list" or
> > "the &struct list_head that tracks current location in list."
>
> I considered "iterator" (but that's the macro itself I think),
> "control", "variable", "pointer", and "position".
> "current location" would be OK with me.
"cursor"
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2006-05-18 17:54 Randy.Dunlap
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2006-05-19 16:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
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2006-05-19 17:27 ` Randy.Dunlap
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