On Thu, 6 June 2013 22:32:55 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Joern Engel <jo...@logfs.org> wrote:
> > I have seen a lot of boilerplate code that either follows the pattern of
> > while (!list_empty(head)) {
> > pos = list_entry(head->next, struct foo, list);
> > list_del(pos->list);
> > ...
> > }
> > or some variant thereof.
>
> What the problem to use list_for_each_safe()?
The loop may terminate with elements left on the list. There is more,
but I would consider this the main problem.
Jörn
--
If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach,
you can almost always do something better.
-- John Carmack
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