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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] cdrom: use list_head for cdrom_device_info list
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:57:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080322175752.GA24089@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <961aa3350803220810y25f13d1bk3769e738c9f80625@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:10:45AM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2008/3/22, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>:
> > On Sat, Mar 22 2008, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> >  > Use list_head for cdrom_device_info list instead of opencoded
> >  > singly list handling.
> >
> >
> > Looks good, but you don't seem to be initializing ->list anywhere. Did
> >  you test this?
> >
> >  I'd suggest just adding an INIT_LIST_HEAD() before the list_add() in
> >  register_cdrom()
> 
> It seems that current list_add() implementation doesn't need
> initalized new entry with/without CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST.

it never did and never should.  only the list head needs to be
initialized.

your patch is fine in that respect.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-22 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-22  3:09 [PATCH 1/5] cdrom: remove ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL Akinobu Mita
2008-03-22  3:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] cdrom: cleanup hardcoded error-code Akinobu Mita
2008-03-22  3:12   ` [PATCH 3/5] cdrom: protect cdrom_device_info list by mutex Akinobu Mita
2008-03-22  3:12     ` [PATCH 4/5] cdrom: use list_head for cdrom_device_info list Akinobu Mita
2008-03-22  3:14       ` [PATCH 5/5] cdrom: make unregister_cdrom() return void Akinobu Mita
2008-03-22 12:57         ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-22 15:45         ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-22 16:43         ` Adrian McMenamin
2008-03-22 12:55       ` [PATCH 4/5] cdrom: use list_head for cdrom_device_info list Jens Axboe
2008-03-22 12:56         ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-22 15:10         ` Akinobu Mita
2008-03-22 17:57           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-03-25 19:04             ` Jens Axboe

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