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SubjectRe: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection.
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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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Daniel
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