Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce rculist.h

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:09:07 -0700

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:56:07PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> In linux-next there is a commit ("rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected
> lists into rculist.h") that moved the rcu related list iterators from
> list.h to rculist.h.  Add a trivial version of the file now so that
> various subsystem trees can start using it now for -next changes and so
> reduce the build errors caused by adding uses of the moved functions.

Works for me!

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email-masked]>

> Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  include/linux/rculist.h |    6 ++++++
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/rculist.h
> 
> Linus, would you consider patches like this for 2.6.26 that have no
> effect on the current tree but help with conflicts in various subsystems
> during the next merge window?  I already have three build fixups for this
> one in particular.
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..bde4586
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
> +#ifndef _LINUX_RCULIST_H
> +#define _LINUX_RCULIST_H
> +
> +#include <linux/list.h>
> +
> +#endif	/* _LINUX_RCULIST_H */
> -- 
> 1.5.6
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell                    [email-masked]
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/