From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Break out types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/list_types.h>.
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:10:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100702211010.GA8732@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007022243.13270.arnd@arndb.de>
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:43:13PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2010 21:19:11 Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Why a new header file instead of linux/types.h?
>
> I think it mostly makes sense because a list_head by itself usually
> isn't all that useful, you also want the list_add/list_for_each/...
> macros, so you end up including linux/list.h anyway.
It's useful for headers. You can assume linux/types.h is already
included and don't have to bother to include list{_types}.h everywhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-02 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-25 21:00 [PATCH] arch/tile: Add driver to enable access to the user dynamic network Chris Metcalf
2010-06-26 11:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-27 17:00 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-06-28 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-28 15:23 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-06-28 19:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-02 12:19 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 12:19 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 16:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-02 17:41 ` [PATCH] Break out types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/list_types.h> Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 17:41 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 19:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-07-02 19:33 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 19:33 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 20:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-07-02 21:09 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 21:09 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-03 8:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-07-03 9:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-04 1:47 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-04 1:47 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-07-04 3:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-07-02 20:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-07-02 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-07-02 17:52 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: Add driver to enable access to the user dynamic network Chris Metcalf
2010-07-02 17:52 ` Chris Metcalf
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