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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
	ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Eliminate update of list_for_each_entry loop cursor
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:31:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100812093141.GA6561@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1008120735200.16027@ask.diku.dk>

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:46:13AM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
 
> This seems a bit ugly to me, since it exposes the implementation of the 
> list abstraction.  What about the following:

	Actually, we're going to go back to the original list_for_each()
and list_entry() version.  It's a well understood idiom.
	We're also going to re-audit the rest of the patch that changed
list_for_each() to list_for_each_entry(), just in case we missed another
semantic error.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-12  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-07  9:09 [PATCH 1/2] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Eliminate update of list_for_each_entry loop cursor Julia Lawall
2010-08-12  0:03 ` Joel Becker
2010-08-12  5:46   ` Julia Lawall
2010-08-12  7:14     ` Dan Carpenter
2010-08-12  9:31     ` Joel Becker [this message]
2011-11-02  7:39   ` Dan Carpenter
2011-11-02 17:05     ` Sunil Mushran
2011-11-17  8:43       ` [Ocfs2-devel] " Joel Becker

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