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
next prev parent 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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