Re: [PATCH] kconfig/menuconfig: use TAILQ instead of CIRCLEQ

[Yann E. MORIN]

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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