On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 12:51:35PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'll express my opinion: perhaps it's widely shared, perhaps it is not. > > I think a patch like this (and the subsequent conversions) is unhelpful > churn. > > The Linux struct list_head is designed and intended to be used for both > head and entry, and introducing aliases to make unnecessary distinctions > just hinders development instead of helping it. > > If the reader is confused at first, I hope the reader will soon learn, > without needing to rely on aliases such as these.
I fully concur with Hugh - the list_head is symmetric for heads vs entires, and lots of code depends on that. In addition to that multiple functions that do exactly the same thing generall are a bad idea. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
