linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] list: add type-safer list

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Date:   Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:47:17 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Barnabás Pőcze <pobrn@...tonmail.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Xiaomeng Tong <xiam0nd.tong@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] list: add type-safer list_head wrapper

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 3:45 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Yeah, not with the limitation that it only works on global list heads. [..]

"global" is the wrong word. Obviously it works on static list heads in
file - or even function - scope etc too. But you get what I'm saying..

            Linus