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FromDaniel Phillips <>
SubjectRe: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection.
DateMon, 2 Sep 2002 12:07:04 +0200
On Monday 02 September 2002 08:23, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Sunday September 1, wli@holomorphy.com wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 01:23, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > >> This week, it spread to SCTP.
> > >> "struct list_head" isn't a great name, but having two names for
> > >> everything is yet another bar to reading kernel source.
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:51:54AM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > > I am all for your cleanup here, but two nits:
> > > Why not rename list_head while at it?  I would vote for just "struct
> > > list" ... the name is long, and I like my lines to fit 80 columns.
> > 
> > Seconded. Throw the whole frog in the blender, please, not just
> > half.
> 
> The struct in question is a handle on an element of a list, or the
> head of a list, but it is not a list itself.  A list is a number of
> stuctures each of which contain (inherit from?)  the particular
> structure.  So calling it "struct list" would be wrong, because it
> isn't a list, only part of one.

Pffft.  A struct page isn't a page either.

-- 
Daniel
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