On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:03:30AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > It's just that we've survived three decades without that list_pop(), > and I don't want to make our header files even bigger and more complex > unless we actually have multiple real users. I personally surived with it, but really hated writing the open coded list_for_each_entry + list_del or while list_first_entry_or_null + ┐ist_del when I could have a nice primitive for it. I finally decided to just add that helper..