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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@openvz.org, Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro
Date: 17 Apr 2007 17:19:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73irbv58r3.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4624AD20.6050009@sw.ru>

Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru> writes:

> There are many places in the kernel where the construction like
> 
>    foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list);
> 
> are used. 
> The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro
> 
>    list_first_entry(head, type, member) \
>              list_entry((head)->next, type, member)

Thanks. I always wanted that too.

-andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-17 11:18 [PATCH] Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro Pavel Emelianov
2007-04-17 15:19 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-17 17:11 ` Zach Brown
2007-04-17 17:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-18 11:42 ` Nikita Danilov

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