Re: [RFC/PATCH] Introduce list_get() and list_get_tail()

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 15:58 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Add primitives to access first and last elements of a list instead
> > of accessng pointers directly.
> 
> Wouldn't that be beter named list_first() and list_last() then?
> _get is like _do and usually not very descriptive.

and _get tends to imply a reference count as well; I'm with Andi on
this.. list_first() and list_last() 

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