Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 11:08:37 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: List of things requested by lkml for reiser4 inclusion (to review) |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >The type-unsafety of existing list_heads gives me conniptions too. Yes, >it'd be nice to have a type-safe version available. > >That being said, I don't see why such a thing cannot be a wrapper around >the existing list_head functions. Yes, there will be some ghastly >C-templates-via-CPP stuff, best avoided by not looking at the file ;) > >We should aim for a complete 1:1 relationship between list_heads and >type-safe lists. So people know what they're called, know how they work, >etc. We shouldn't go adding things called rx_event_list_pop_back() when >everyone has learned the existing list API. > >Of course, it would have been better to do this work as a completely >separate kernel feature rather than bundling it with a filesystem. If this >isn't a thing your team wants to take on now then yes, I'd be inclined to >switch reiser4 to list_heads. > > > Vladimir spent 24 hours straight unsafing the lists in reiser4, and didn't finish yet. We need 1-2 more days to address this before we can submit reiser4. I hope this delay will not be too much of a problem.
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