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

[Byungchul Park]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:46:16AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the comment. OK.

> -- Steve