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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: single linked list header in kernel?
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:57:25 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416D4255.9080501@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.10.13.05.50.46.937470@smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Chris Friesen wrote:

>>Is there any plan to put a singly-linked list implementation into the kernel?  I 
>>mean sure its simple, but we've got the double-linked one there...

> What would you use one for? Just putting stuff in the kernel because it's
> not there yet is nonsense.

There are various places where there are open-coded single-linked list 
implementations.  This would just unify them to a single implementation.  On a 
previous occasion, someone estimated 42 instances where slist_for_each() could 
be used in net/core alone.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-13 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-12 18:15 single linked list header in kernel? Chris Friesen
2004-10-13  5:50 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-13 14:57   ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-10-13 18:25     ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-13 18:55       ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-14  0:19         ` Tonnerre
2004-10-14  0:16       ` Tonnerre
2004-10-14  4:18         ` Kevin Puetz
2004-10-14 21:39           ` Antonio Vargas

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