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From: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] rust: clist: Add typed iteration with FromListHead trait
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:08:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93114f3c-c1d9-48f5-ad76-f74d4d53c9e0@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DEJ61A0GHW1Z.3TXMGSHOQ6Y0X@nvidia.com>


>>>>> Also as I suspected in v1 `Clist` appears to do very little apart from
>>>>> providing an iterator, so I'm more convinced that the front type for
>>>>> this should be `ClistHead`.
>>>>
>>>> This part I don't agree with. I prefer to keep it as `Clist` which wraps a
>>>> sentinel list head. A random `ClistHead` is not necessarily a sentinel.
>>>
>>> I expressed myself poorly - what I meant of that `ClistHead` should be
>>> the only type you need for the low-level iteration (which should not be
>>> public).
>>
>> For low level iteration it is already via that type. There are 2 iterators. The higher level uses the lower level one. I could make it even simpler and collapse bother iterators into one - that yields the final type T. 
> 
> I think the current 2 iterators design is elegant: the lower-level one
> taking care of going through the list, and the higher-level one building
> on top of that and adding upcasting. Maybe the lower-level one can be
> made private, but I'd keep it in any case.
> 

Yeah, I kept it split for that purpose but had a nagging feeling if it was
required. But ok, I will leave that part alone then. Making it private sgtm.

Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-27  5:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-11 17:13 [PATCH v2 1/3] rust: helpers: Add list helpers for C linked list operations Joel Fernandes
2025-11-11 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: clist: Add basic list infrastructure and head iterator Joel Fernandes
2025-11-24  3:47   ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-25 23:03     ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-25 23:06     ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-28 18:39   ` Daniel Almeida
2025-11-11 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] rust: clist: Add typed iteration with FromListHead trait Joel Fernandes
2025-11-24  7:01   ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-25 23:29     ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-26  1:03       ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-26 20:14         ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-27  3:43           ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-27  5:08             ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2025-11-11 17:13 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rust: Introduce support for C linked list interfacing Joel Fernandes
2025-11-11 19:54   ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-11-11 21:52     ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-25 14:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rust: helpers: Add list helpers for C linked list operations Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-25 18:16   ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-25 19:48     ` John Hubbard
2025-11-25 22:52       ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-26  1:16     ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-26  1:39       ` John Hubbard
2025-11-26 10:06         ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-11-26 18:15           ` John Hubbard
2025-11-26 18:50       ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-26 20:57         ` John Hubbard
2025-11-27  5:10           ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-27 13:46             ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-11-28 21:49               ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-29 22:44                 ` John Hubbard
2025-11-30  1:04                   ` Joel Fernandes
2025-11-28 18:20           ` Daniel Almeida
2025-11-28 18:17       ` Daniel Almeida
2025-12-03  3:30         ` Alexandre Courbot

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