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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection.
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 03:52:22 +0200
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On Wednesday 04 September 2002 02:41, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209031610200.10759-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> you
>  write:
> > 
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > > 
> > >      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.
> > 
> > Well, the thing is, one of the _advantages_ of "struct list_head" is 
> > exactly the fact that the implementation is 100% agnostic about whether a 
> > list entry is the head, or just part of the list.
> 
> Excellent.  Well I'm glad that's sorted.
> 
> Now please apply my patch (which got sidelined by nomenclature fetishers),

Yep, half a frog in the blender is better than no frog.

-- 
Daniel
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