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Message-Id: <20070417102945.052796d5.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:29:45 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org, Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:18:56 +0400 Pavel Emelianov wrote:

> 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)
> 
> Here is the macro itself and the examples of its usage in the
> generic code. If it will turn out to be useful, I can prepare
> the set of patches to inject in into arch-specific code, drivers,
> networking, etc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
> index fd59659..71318fc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/list.h
> +++ b/include/linux/list.h
> @@ -425,6 +425,9 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(
>  #define list_entry(ptr, type, member) \
>  	container_of(ptr, type, member)
>  
> +#define list_first_entry(ptr, type, member) \
> +	list_entry((ptr)->next, type, member)
> +

Please provide kernel-doc for that like the rest of list.h has.

>  /**
>   * list_for_each	-	iterate over a list
>   * @pos:	the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.


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~Randy
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