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From: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce list_get() and list_get_tail()
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:02:39 +0200
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Le Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:16:25 +0200, Arjan van de Ven a écrit :

> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 15:58 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> writes:
>> 
>> > From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
>> > 
>> > 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()
Yes from the name I would expect they remove the entry from the list...