From: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:56:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15763.55020.35426.721691@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <924963807@toto.iv>
>>>>> "Thunder" == Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org> writes:
Thunder> Hi, On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Have you thought about how to _use_ a list without a list head ?
Thunder> Indeed, that was why I've brought this up at all...
What is the problem these lists are intended to solve?
There's no point in adding general infrastructure that has no
immediate uses -- it just ends up mouldering in a corner,
(like the generic hashing code linux/ghash.h which has been in the
kernel for 4 or 5 years, and still has *no* uses.)
--
Dr Peter Chubb peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au
You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-27 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <924963807@toto.iv>
2002-09-27 3:56 ` Peter Chubb [this message]
2002-09-27 7:27 ` [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-27 14:56 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-30 19:48 ` Daniel Phillips
[not found] <20020926142547.N13817@bitchcake.off.net>
2002-09-26 18:45 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 19:29 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 19:43 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 20:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 20:10 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 21:13 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-26 21:19 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-27 0:57 ` Zach Brown
2002-09-27 20:08 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-27 20:39 ` Zach Brown
2002-09-27 20:52 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-28 9:45 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-30 19:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-30 20:04 ` Zach Brown
[not found] ` <E17w7N8-0005px-00@starship>
2002-09-30 20:50 ` Zach Brown
2002-10-01 16:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-26 19:49 ` David B. Stevens
2002-09-26 17:41 Lightweight Patch Manager
2002-09-26 17:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-26 18:26 ` Thunder from the hill
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