From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nawablinux@gmail.com (nawab) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:07:17 +0530 Subject: Difference between INIT_LIST_HEAD and LIST_HEAD_INIT Message-ID: <54ABACCD.9080207@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org hi friends , i have a simple doubt when i was looking on linux/list.h I have seen that INIT_LIST_HEAD and LIST_HEAD_INIT are performing the same functionality,the major difference is the argument passed. When we have to use INIT_LIST_HEAD and LIST_HEAD_INIT??