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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:13:30 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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David S. Miller wrote:
> A list node is markably different from "the list" itself.
> 
> A "list" is the whole of all the nodes on the list, not just one
> of them.

Quite.

And that is why there should be _two_ types:

     1. struct list
     2. struct list_node

With these two types, `list_add' et al. can actually _check_ that you
got the arguments the right way around.

-- Jamie
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