From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 20:41:17 -0700 > Note that the "correct way" of doing list operations also almost > inevitably is the shortest way by far, since it gets rid of all the > special cases. So the patch looks nice. It gets rid of the magic > "nf_set_hooks_head()" thing too, because once you do list following > right, the head is no different from any other pointer in the list. Perhaps we should have some "slist" primitives added to include/linux/list.h but since the comparison differs for each user I guess it's hard to abstract in a way that's generic and inlines properly. I'll start taking a look at your patch and this stuff as well, thanks Linus. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
