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Date:   Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:07:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.4
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:03:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's just that we've survived three decades without that list_pop(),
> and I don't want to make our header files even bigger and more complex
> unless we actually have multiple real users.

I personally surived with it, but really hated writing the open coded
list_for_each_entry + list_del or while list_first_entry_or_null +
┐ist_del when I could have a nice primitive for it.  I finally decided
to just add that helper..