Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:56:17 -0600 (MDT) | From | Thunder from the hill <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2 |
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Hi,
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Peter Chubb wrote: > What is the problem these lists are intended to solve?
Reduction of effort in the place where we only have single-direction lists, such as stacks and the scheduler. (That is, whereever we don't need to step back.)
> There's no point in adding general infrastructure that has no immediate > uses -- it just ends up mouldering in a corner, (like the generic > hashing code linux/ghash.h which has been in the kernel for 4 or 5 > years, and still has *no* uses.)
Wasn't it already removed?
Thunder -- assert(typeof((fool)->next) == typeof(fool)); /* wrong */
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