From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 24 9:46:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D7437BD18; Wed, 24 May 2000 09:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA289266; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:46:19 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000523212529.2B19CBA69@io.yi.org> References: <20000523212529.2B19CBA69@io.yi.org> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:46:30 -0400 To: Jake Burkholder , Jake Burkholder From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: HEADS UP Re: cvs commit: ... Change to queue(3) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:25 PM -0700 5/23/00, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > jake 2000/05/23 13:41:02 PDT > > Log: > > Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; > > don't assume that the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY > > is a struct. > > > > Suggested by: phk > > Reviewed by: phk > > Approved by: mdodd > > > >HEADS UP > >Possible action required! > >Some drivers use headers from the installed system during the >kernel build, and a make world, or at least make includes, is >necessary before a new kernel can be built. > >LINT is affected by this. What is the advantage of this? You're going to have a queue of some things, and those things are not structs? What else would they be? unions? or is this so one can use typedef'ed structs? (I guess I should look at the change before asking, but it seems like such an odd change to make...and my gut reaction is that it is a change in the wrong direction) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message