Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jul 2013 14:37:09 +1000 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] introduce list_for_each_entry_del |
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On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 04:41:00PM -0400, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Mon, 3 June 2013 13:28:03 -0400, Joern Engel wrote: > > > > A purely janitorial patchset. A fairly common pattern is to take a > > list, remove every object from it and do something with this object - > > usually kfree() some variant. A stupid grep identified roughly 300 > > instances, with many more hidden behind more complicated patterns to > > achieve the same end results. > > Next version of the same patchset. Object size is shrinking now, at > least for the one compiler I tested. And a few kernel hackers met on > a frozen lake in hell with pigs flying overhead and could actually > agree on a name. While I am sure almost every reader will still > disagree and have one or two better suggestions, I would like to use > this historical moment. > > list_del_each and list_del_each_entry is shall be!
Can you add _init variants to this? There are many loops that actually require list_del_init() rather than list_del()...
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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