Re: [PATCH] Break out types from <linux/list.h> to<linux/list_types.h>.

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jul 02 2010 - 17:10:19 EST


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.

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