Design Patterns in Linux Kernel: Fancy Tricks With Linked Lists

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Arlie Stephens <arlie at worldash.org>:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm trying to understand the linux way of doing things, so as to write
> code which will be easier for experienced linux kernel people to
> understand. Yesterday I wound up in a 3 engineer discussion about
> something conceptually simple, that just didn't want to be done with
> the tools at hand; what's worse, the only ways I could see to do it
> were (a) do my own linked lists or (b) write some routines that relied
> kind of heavily on the never-mentioned-in-documentation details of
> linux/list.h   I'll probably go with option (b), as that seems less
> insane, but I thought I might as well ask here as well.

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rday