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From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mmarek@suse.cz, bpoirier@suse.de,
	yselkowitz@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig/menuconfig: use TAILQ instead of CIRCLEQ
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:52:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210200052.53599.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201210192110.CII57863.VOStFJQFMLHOFO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

Tetsuo, Michal, All,

On Friday 19 October 2012 Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Some systems (eg. Cygwin, FreeBSD) are missing the CIRCLEQ macros.
[--SNIP--]
> > So, switch to using TAILQ instead, which are more portable.
[--SNIP--]
> Excuse me, but your patch does not solve my problem because kconfig started
> using macros which does not exist in "@(#)queue.h 8.3 (Berkeley) 12/13/93".

Whoa. That's old... :-/

Currently, kconfig uses (CIRCLEQ or TAILQ)

> Kconfig still fails after applying your patch:
[--SNIP--]
> So, would you add something which looks like "sed -e 's/CIRCLEQ/TAILQ/g'" upon
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/16/274 ?

Sorry, I did not see you had posted a patch.

Basically, I don't care what solution we choose. Using TAILQ looks like
being not the solution. So, here are the known options:
1-  Michal pointed to tools/firewire/list.h, but those are different from
    the CIRCLEQ/TAILQ, and switching is not easy (at least for me after a
    quick glance);

1b- note also that drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/queue.h has all of both the CIRCLEQ
    and TAILQ macros we're interested in, too, and it looks like it can be
    used out of the kernel (eg. for userland);

2-  carry the parts of CIRCLEQ (or TAILQ) that we need, and use them if
    the system's sys/queue.h does not provide them, as Tetsuo proposed;

3-  carry the parts of CIRCLEQ (or TAILQ) that we need, and do not rely
    on the system's sys/queue.h to provide them at all.


Michal, what do you think would be the best route to go, to:
1- get a fix in 3.7 ?
2- if the fix for 3.7 is just a workaround, a proper fix for 3.8 ?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-19 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-18 17:33 [PATCH] kconfig/menuconfig: use TAILQ instead of CIRCLEQ Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-18 17:55 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-10-18 18:59   ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-19  8:59     ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-10-19 12:10 ` Tetsuo Handa
2012-10-19 14:54   ` Michal Marek
2012-10-20 14:43     ` Tetsuo Handa
2012-10-20 16:58       ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-19 22:52   ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2012-10-20 17:56 ` [PATCH] menuconfig: Replace CIRCLEQ by list_head-style lists Benjamin Poirier
2012-10-20 21:22   ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-21  1:21     ` Tetsuo Handa
2012-10-20 22:19   ` Yann E. MORIN
2012-10-21  1:54   ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2012-10-23 13:12 ` [PATCH] kconfig/menuconfig: use TAILQ instead of CIRCLEQ Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-23 17:04   ` Yann E. MORIN

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