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

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Message-ID: <20121023131248.GA4289@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:12:48 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>,
	Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig/menuconfig: use TAILQ instead of CIRCLEQ

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?

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