On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 02:23:18AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > what started off as just some nonchalant poking around in kernel > data structures has become moderately educational. i had no idea that > there is support for *sorting* the nodes of a kernel LL in > <linux/list_sort.h>: > > > void list_sort(void *priv, struct list_head *head, > int (*cmp)(void *priv, struct list_head *a, > struct list_head *b)); > > > doesn't seem to be a lot of folks using that:
It's very new. The drm code needed it, so they took it from the xfs code and made it common code. > i wonder how much kernel code manually sorts a linked list, not > realizing that there's kernel library support for that. Hopefully none other, if you find some please feel free to convert it to use the core code. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
