Re: [PATCH] Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro

From: Nikita Danilov
Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 07:42:30 EST


Pavel Emelianov writes:
> There are many places in the kernel where the construction like
>
> foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list);
>
> are used.
> The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro
>
> list_first_entry(head, type, member) \
> list_entry((head)->next, type, member)

Won't list_next_entry() be more descriptive name for that?

Nikita.

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