Re: question about lists

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On Sun, May 03, 2020 at 11:10:01PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering what is the point of code like the following:
> 
>         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bb->list);
>         list_add(&bb->list, &s->workload->shadow_bb);
> 
> As far as I can see, list_add will initialize both fields of the list_head
> structure without looking at their values, so why is the INIT_LIST_HEAD
> needed?

Yeah.  You're right.  It's not needed.

regards,
dan carpenter




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