Re: [GIT PULL] iomap: new code for 5.4

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Sep 19 2019 - 13:07:18 EST


On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:03:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's just that we've survived three decades without that list_pop(),
> and I don't want to make our header files even bigger and more complex
> unless we actually have multiple real users.

I personally surived with it, but really hated writing the open coded
list_for_each_entry + list_del or while list_first_entry_or_null +
âist_del when I could have a nice primitive for it. I finally decided
to just add that helper..