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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:58:41 -0400
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Josef Sipek" <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce list_get() and list_get_tail()
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On 7/11/06, Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:28:47PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> ...
> > +#define list_next_entry list_first_entry
>
> list_next_entry, that sounds almost as something which given any list_head
> will give you the next entry. That's all fine until you give it the last
> list_head in the list - you'll try to use list_entry on a list_head that's
> not part of a struct but is the head of the list instead.
>
> > +#define list_prev_entry list_last_entry
>
> Ditto.

The same could be said about regular list_entry(), however we do have
it and it is pretty useful.

-- 
Dmitry