> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] > Sent: Friday, 14 February 2025 18.20 > > This series adds common macros for safe iteration over lists. > It is a subset copy of the macros from FreeBSD that are > missing from the Linux header sys/queue.h > > Chose this over several other options: > - let each driver define their own as needed. > One Intel driver got it wrong, others will as well. > - rename all the queue macros to RTE_XXX variants. > Seems like useless renaming and confusion. > - Several distros have libbsd package with the correct macros. > But adding yet another dependency to DPDK would be annoying > for something this basic. > > There are more macros in FreeBSD header that could be useful, > but we can add those later as needed here.
100 % agree with all of the above. Especially that adding RTE_ prefix to "industry standard" macros would be silly. And all patches in this series LGTM. Series-acked-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com>
