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From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
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 08:56:17 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209270855000.7827-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15763.55020.35426.721691@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Peter Chubb wrote:
> What is the problem these lists are intended to solve?

Reduction of effort in the place where we only have single-direction 
lists, such as stacks and the scheduler. (That is, whereever we don't need 
to step back.)

> 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.)

Wasn't it already removed?

			Thunder
-- 
assert(typeof((fool)->next) == typeof(fool));	/* wrong */


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-27 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <924963807@toto.iv>
2002-09-27  3:56 ` [PATCH][2.5] Single linked lists for Linux, overly complicated v2 Peter Chubb
2002-09-27  7:27   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-27 14:56   ` Thunder from the hill [this message]
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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