Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26

Linus Torvalds
2008-08-24T18:58:09Z

On Sun, 24 Aug 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>
> I haven't really used the hlists before, so my first instinct was to
> do what is obvious.

I do agree that the hlist versions aren't very nice in this regard. The
regular lists are much better at moving lists around.

> Other than that, I guess open-coding list ops is also not very good
> programming practice? :-)

Agreed. It would be better if the people who use hlists most (I think that
would be networking) would think about this.

> But... feel free to submit your own patch. Oh, what am I saying.

Silly boy. Next you'll ask me to _test_ any patches I send out.

Anyway, I think your patch is likely fine, I just thought it looked a bit
odd to have a loop to move a list from one head pointer to another.

But regardless, it would need some testing. Daniel?

Linus