Re: [QUESTION] llist: Comment releasing 'must delete' restriction before traversing

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:38:09 +0900
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:52:57AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:58:36AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:  
> > > In restrictive cases like only addtions happen but never deletion, can't
> > > we safely traverse a llist? I believe llist can be more useful if we can
> > > release the restriction. Can't we?  
> > 
> > Yes you can, but I'm not sure it makes much sense to confuse the
> > comments with this.
> > 
> > This really ends up in the 'you had better know what you're doing'
> > category.  
> 
> Partially agree with you. But why not add more explanation?
> 
> If you think the comment confuse us, then it's ok to keep it itself.
> 

It appears that you will only have your own users that will be doing
this, correct? How many use cases have no deletion? I wouldn't change
the generic comments on llist for something that's a one off and hardly
used.

-- Steve