Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:50:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:50:28 -0400 Received: from pD9E239ED.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.226.57.237]:56704 "EHLO hawkeye.luckynet.adm") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:50:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:56:17 -0600 (MDT) From: Thunder from the hill X-X-Sender: thunder@hawkeye.luckynet.adm To: Peter Chubb cc: Rik van Riel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2 In-Reply-To: <15763.55020.35426.721691@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Message-ID: X-Location: Dorndorf/Steudnitz; Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 25 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 */ - 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/