Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce list_get() and list_get_tail()

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat Jul 08 2006 - 14:29:07 EST


Am Saturday 08 July 2006 07:24 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:
> +/**
> + * list_get - get first element in a list
> + * @head: the head of your list
> + */
> +static inline struct list_head *list_get(struct list_head *head)
> +{
> +       return head->next;
> +}

I would expect it to be more useful when combined with list_entry(),
something like

#define list_first_entry(list, type, member) \
container_of((list)->next, type, member)
#define list_last_entry(list, type, member) \
container_of((list)->prev, type, member)

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