On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The Linux kernel list.h is _better_ than most stupid list implementations
> that think that a head node is different from the list node. Exactly
> because it very naturally supports the notion of "this structure exists in
> a 'ring of entries'" where each node is 100% equivalent to any other node,
> and there _is_ no head.
Btw, to extend a bit on this: there actually *is* a "list with a head"
implementation in <linux/list.h>, called "hlist".
Now, the "h" actually historically stands for "hash", but if you prefer,
you can think of it as standing for "head", and be happy.
And if you want a head, you really do want to use "hlist", since the head
is smaller than a list entry (a single pointer rather than two).
And yes, I'm sure we could change some "struct list" users to "struct
hlist" if you wanted to.
Linus
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