Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection. | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:07:04 +0200 |
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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.
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