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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce list_get() and list_get_tail()
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 20:31:17 +0200
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Am Saturday 08 July 2006 07:24 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:
> +/**
> + * list_get - get first element in a list
> + * @head: the head of your list
> + */
> +static inline struct list_head *list_get(struct list_head *head)
> +{
> +       return head->next;
> +}

I would expect it to be more useful when combined with list_entry(),
something like

#define list_first_entry(list, type, member) \
	container_of((list)->next, type, member)
#define list_last_entry(list, type, member) \
	container_of((list)->prev, type, member)

	Arnd <><