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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:45:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] list: add type-safer list_head wrapper
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:15 PM Barnab=C3=A1s P=C5=91cze <pobrn@protonmail.=
com> wrote:
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>      So, sorry to be this obtuse, but I gather the proposed interface
> is a no-go in all ways, shapes, and forms in your eyes?

Yeah, not with the limitation that it only works on global list heads.
We already have a lot of different list traversal things (rcu, safe,
hlist, continue-in-the-middle etc etc), and we clearly are going to
add a new set - but I don't want to add one that is so limited that it
only works for the simplest kind of list.

                  Linus