netdev - [PATCH 0/10]: Kill more direct references to SKB list implementation.

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Date:	Fri, 29 May 2009 01:39:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/10]: Kill more direct references to SKB list
 implementation.

This is some more work towards eliminating exlicit references to the
SKB list implementation, with the eventual goal that converting the
tree over to use "struct list_head" for skb's can be a single commit
to just one file, linux/skbuff.h

In order for that to happen, sufficient abstract interfaces need to
exist in linux/skbuff.h (that's already mostly the case) and code
needs to use those interfaces instead of directly hitting skb->next,
skb->prev, comparing such pointers to the list head with a cast, etc.

There's still a bit more to do, but we're closer than ever to being
able to put the last nail in the coffin on this one.

I'll be pushing these out to net-next-2.6 after some sanity build
checks.
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