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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 21:39:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: (struct page *)->list
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Bulent Abali wrote:

> The question is if I unhook the page->list field after
> page=alloc_page() and add page->list to my private linked list
> will that cause a problem elsewhere in the kernel?

This isn't portable between 2.2 and 2.4.  Treating struct page as an
opaque type is the recommended strategy.

		-ben

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