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

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Message-Id: <201210201858.37169.yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:58:36 +0200
From:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
To:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>, mmarek@...e.cz,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bpoirier@...e.de,
	yselkowitz@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig/menuconfig: use TAILQ instead of CIRCLEQ

Tetuso, All,

On Saturday 20 October 2012 Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Michal Marek wrote:
> > On 19.10.2012 14:10, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > >> So, switch to using TAILQ instead, which are more portable.
> > [...]
> > > 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".
> > > Kconfig still fails after applying your patch:
> > > 
> > >   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
> > > scripts/kconfig/mconf.c: In function `update_text':
> > > scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:326: warning: implicit declaration of function `TAILQ_FOREACH'
> > [...]
> > > scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:378: warning: implicit declaration of function `TAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER'
> > > 
> > > So, would you add something which looks like "sed -e 's/CIRCLEQ/TAILQ/g'" upon
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/16/274 ?
> > 
> > Could you reduce that patch to not copy all of queue.h?
> > TAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER can be replaced by a TAILQ_INIT() call after
> > variable definitions, and we do not need stuff like
> > TAILQ_FOREACH_REVERSE. The other option is to reimplement the needed
> > operations under a different name, so that people don't accidentally use
> > other macros that are missing in old queue.h revisions.
> > 
> > Michal
> > 
> 
> I'm fine to manually add missing macros to /usr/include/sys/queue.h of
> "@(#)queue.h 8.3 (Berkeley) 12/13/93" in my environment instead of adding
> define-as-needed lines to scripts/kconfig/expr.h, for missing macros are
> available with that of "@(#)queue.h 8.5 (Berkeley) 8/20/94".

Are you OK with this s/CIRCLEQ/TAILQ/ patch, then?
    http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=135058165015518&w=2

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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