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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:34:07 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@...il.com>,
	Jean Sacren <sakiwit@...il.com>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>,
	Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] menuconfig: Replace CIRCLEQ by list_head-style lists.

On 22.10.2012 21:38, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Benjamin, Michal, All,
> 
> On Sunday 21 October 2012 Benjamin Poirier wrote:
>> From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>
>>
>> sys/queue.h and CIRCLEQ in particular have proven to cause portability
>> problems (reported on Debian Sarge, Cygwin and FreeBSD)
> 
> Benjamin,
> 
> Thank you for working on this! :-)

Yeah, thanks!


>>
>> Changes v1-v2:
>> * integrate the patch/suggestion from Yann to fix problems related to the
>>   usage of list.h with xconfig/c++
>> 	* "new" keyword
>> 	* offsetof redefinition
>> * silly #endif placement mistake
> 
> Michal,
> 
> Any more comments on this patch?
> 
> If not, then I would suggest to push it for inclusion before 3.7 is released
> (I believe it can go in, as it is a bugfix, not a new feature).

I pushed it to kbuild.git#rc-fixes now and will send it to Linus for 3.7
inclusion later.

Michal
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