linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] add list_for_each_entry

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Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:52:34 +0200
From:   Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] add list_for_each_entry_del()

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:00 PM David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com> wrote:

> Adding a list_del_first() function that returns the deleted
> item or NULL to optimise it might make more sense.

Something like this?

- list_for_each_entry_del(entry, head, member))
+ while (list_del_first(entry, head, member))

This allows the compact loop condition, and I always hated having to
pass the type to list_*entry()...  Disadvantage being that the
assignment is now implicit (just as with all the list iterators).

Thanks,
Miklos