Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated

Peter Chubb (peter@chubb.wattle.id.au)
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:56:28 +1000


>>>>> "Thunder" == Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org> writes:

Thunder> Hi, On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Have you thought about how to _use_ a list without a list head ?

Thunder> Indeed, that was why I've brought this up at all...

What is the problem these lists are intended to solve?

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.)

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