Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:51:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:51:28 -0400 Received: from c16410.randw1.nsw.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.25.29]:31485 "EHLO mail.chubb.wattle.id.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:51:27 -0400 From: Peter Chubb MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15763.55020.35426.721691@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:56:28 +1000 To: Thunder from the hill Cc: Rik van Riel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2 In-Reply-To: <924963807@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Comments: Hyperbole mail buttons accepted, v04.18. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 926 Lines: 22 >>>>> "Thunder" == Thunder from the hill writes: Thunder> Hi, On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: >> Have you thought about how to _use_ a list without a list head ? Thunder> Indeed, that was why I've brought this up at all... What is the problem these lists are intended to solve? 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.) -- Dr Peter Chubb peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same. - 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/