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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
	Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>,
	cluster-devel <cluster-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.4
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:07:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190919170711.GA9065@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgFRM=z6WS-QLThxL2T1AaoCQeZSoHzj8ak35uSePQVbA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:03:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's just that we've survived three decades without that list_pop(),
> and I don't want to make our header files even bigger and more complex
> unless we actually have multiple real users.

I personally surived with it, but really hated writing the open coded
list_for_each_entry + list_del or while list_first_entry_or_null +
┐ist_del when I could have a nice primitive for it.  I finally decided
to just add that helper..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-19 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-17 15:21 [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.4 Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-19  1:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-19  2:07   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-19  3:45   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-19 17:03     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-19 17:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-19 17:07       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-09-19 17:41         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-19 17:01   ` Christoph Hellwig

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