Re: [PATCH] Corrections to Documentation/rbtree.txt

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 20 March 2008 10:29:57 Ian Abbott wrote:
> From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The description of the rb_entry() macro in Documentation/rbtree.txt seems
> incorrect. This patch improves it (hopefully).  Also I changed the example
> code to call the previous 'my_search()' example instead of an undefined
> 'mysearch()'.

I have no objection to the patch (and the my_search thing seems like an 
obvious typo), but is there a reason to prefer rb_entry() rather than 
container_of()?  If so, the rationale might be a good thing to add to the 
documentation...

Rob
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  - Ken Thompson.
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