* how it the linux implementation of double linked lists useful @ 2015-08-02 20:40 Ahmed Soliman 2015-08-02 20:53 ` Robert P. J. Day 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Ahmed Soliman @ 2015-08-02 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies while reading through linux/list.h I noticed that the linked list structure is really simple with only pointer to the previous node and pointer to next node with no other data (It can't handle anything inside it ) I started to wonder how such linked list can be useful to the kernel or (useful in general) ! thanks ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* how it the linux implementation of double linked lists useful 2015-08-02 20:40 how it the linux implementation of double linked lists useful Ahmed Soliman @ 2015-08-02 20:53 ` Robert P. J. Day 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Robert P. J. Day @ 2015-08-02 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: kernelnewbies On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Ahmed Soliman wrote: > while reading through linux/list.h I noticed that the linked list > structure is really simple with only pointer to the previous node and > pointer to next node with no other data (It can't handle anything > inside it ) I started to wonder how such linked list can be useful to > the kernel or (useful in general) ! > thanks i wrote a tutorial about that once: http://www.crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/intermission-lets-talk-about-linked-lists-and-containerof-free rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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