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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:29:32 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Thunder from the hill wrote:

> We don't know the parent structure. We shouldn't know it, since it takes
> time. So I try to keep the address pointer stable instead of just
> exchanging pointers.

In the case of slist_del() you HAVE to know it.

Think about removing a single entry from the middle of
the list ... the entries before and after need to stay
on the list.

Rik
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