Re: Patch: linux-2.3.47pre6 has conflicting definitions of QUEUE_EMPTY

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 00:40:09 EST


On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
>
> Did you notice that we currently have 3 `generic' implementations of
> doubly-linked lists? <linux/list.h> <linux/lists.h> and <linux/dlists.h>.
> dlists.h is _completely_ unused. lists.h is used by h8, as you noticed,
> and sysctl. list.h is used in a variety of places. I'm kind of tempted
> to put together a patch removing lists.h, but dlists.h should be deleted
> before anyone uses it accidentally.

I'd appreciate a patch. The <linux/lists.h> thing tries to be
BSD-compatible, but is just generally inferior to the regular list.h, and
yes, if somebody sends me a patch to remove the two other ones I won't
mind...

                Linus

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