About the name of 'struct list_head', how about giving an alias for differentiating the usage?
"Chan Kim" <[email protected]>
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Hello all, Often when I analyze linux source code, it takes me some time to figure out how a list_head member of a struct is being used. Sometimes it points to a linked list's start member, but sometimes it used to link the containing struct as a member of linked list.(you know we cat get the struct in the linked list using container_of operator). Wouldn't it be nice if we give list_head an alias like 'list_hook_head' (or just list_hook) so that the alias can be used for the second case? By gradually changing the type name to list_hook_head in some structs, we could make the source code more easier to read. I hope someone do this someday.. Thank you. Chan Kim _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies