Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: >> Incidentally, Linux has its own list API, including inlined functions. >> It'd be nice to have compatibility with that. Also, I second Darren's >> sentiment w.r.t. the AVL tree API. >> > > Okay, but all of *those* comments are *not this case*. Unless someone > believes this case ought to be abandoned in favor of the queue.h macros.
I don't. I think both should exist. > For my nickel, I think its sad that we have to have two "competing" list > types in the kernel. Agreed. > Given that, I'd actually prefer to remove the queue.h interfaces, and > promote list.h. list.h interfaces are safer than BSD queue.h (see above > argument), and have been around and available since ~forever. Please don't! The BSD queue.h interfaces are used in both kernel *and* user-space code -- they're also present on Linux -- and the lack of them on classic Solaris is a very annoying application portability issue. Removing them would be a big step backwards. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
