Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add safe version of list_for_each_entry() to list.h | From | "Mark Peloquin" <> | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:40:45 -0500 |
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On 10/04/2002 at 11:00 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> That behaviour for list_del is new and, IMNSHO, bogus. There's now _zero_ > gain in using list_del instead of list_del_init.
The only gain I've noticed is when the container object is memset it gives implicit initialization if one uses list_del.
> akpm changed it about > 5 months ago with a comment that says:
> "list_head debugging"
> so i think it's pretty safe to assume that this behaviour will not > remain into 2.6. if you think you want list_member, use list_del_init > and list_empty() instead.
I wasn't aware this was somewhat recently added item for debug and will switch to list_del_init().
Thanks for bring this to my attention!
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