On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 06:51:25 -0700 (PDT), prasanna wakhare <prasannawakhare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The buffer_head structure in fs.h dont use list_head, > but normal doubly linked list implementation, Indeed. That happens in lots of places - and other times people re-invent the wheel with simple macros that turn out to have subtle gotchas which are fixed in the generic implementation. > is there any reason behind this. Historical. You'd have to change a lot of code in various places to fix that, but there's only one such use in 2.6 after buffer_heads got the black head treatment and were squished. Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
