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From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>,
	Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig/menuconfig: use TAILQ instead of CIRCLEQ
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:04:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210231904.31087.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121023131248.GA4289@infradead.org>

Christoph, All,

On Tuesday 23 October 2012 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:33:45PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Some systems (eg. Cygwin, FreeBSD) are missing the CIRCLEQ macros.
> > They were removed in Y2000 from FreeBSD:
> >     http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=70469
> > 
> > The reason was that TAILQ are perfectly capable of doing the exact
> > same things:
> >     http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_thread.php?list=freebsd-arch&id=915145&thread=yes
> > 
> > (Thank Yaakov for the pointers!)
> > 
> > So, switch to using TAILQ instead, which are more portable.
> 
> Why not use the kernels list.h?

First, we can't use linux/list.h because it can't be included from userspace.
Second, it would not be convenient for those that use kconfig outside the
Linux kernel (thiord-party projects, eg. buildroot, uClibc, busybox...):
    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=135065985609068&w=2

Also, this patch of mine is deprecated; Benjamin has posted another patch
which makes use of a stripped-down list.h, partially copied from linux/list.h:
    http://marc.info/?t=135081179500001&r=1&w=4

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23 17:04 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
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 [this message]

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