[Jfs-discussion] [PATCH] fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse

Rasmus Villemoes linux at rasmusvillemoes.dk
Tue May 12 05:13:25 PDT 2015


On Thu, Mar 19 2015, Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 03/19/2015 11:11 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> On 03/19/2015 01:28 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>>> list_entry is just a wrapper for container_of, but it is arguably
>>> wrong (and slightly confusing) to use it when the pointed-to struct
>>> member is not a struct list_head. Use container_of directly instead.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux at rasmusvillemoes.dk>
>>> ---
>>> Most of these predate git. If I'm the only one who has been confused
>>> by this in 10 years, maybe it's not worth the churn.
>>>
>> 
>> No you are not alone here. I have seen this once as well but did not have
>> the gumption to send a fix. (The sysv.h one)
>> 
>> I totally agree with this patch. (So many of them, bread crumbs of copy/paste
>> for you ;0)
>
> I'm sure that was the case with jfs.
>
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz at plexistor.com>
>
> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp at oracle.com>

Al, any chance you'd take this through the vfs tree?

Rasmus



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