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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:55:21 -0500
From:	Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
CC:	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	codalist@...EMANN.coda.cs.cmu.edu, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse

On 03/19/2015 11:11 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 03/19/2015 01:28 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> list_entry is just a wrapper for container_of, but it is arguably
>> wrong (and slightly confusing) to use it when the pointed-to struct
>> member is not a struct list_head. Use container_of directly instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
>> ---
>> Most of these predate git. If I'm the only one who has been confused
>> by this in 10 years, maybe it's not worth the churn.
>>
> 
> No you are not alone here. I have seen this once as well but did not have
> the gumption to send a fix. (The sysv.h one)
> 
> I totally agree with this patch. (So many of them, bread crumbs of copy/paste
> for you ;0)

I'm sure that was the case with jfs.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>

Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>
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