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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#include <wayland-server-core.h>
+
+/**
+ * wl_list_append() - add a new element to the end of a list
+ * @list: list head to add it before
+ * @elm: new element to be added (link of the containing struct to be precise)
+ *
+ * Note: In labwc, most lists are queues where we want to add new elements to
+ * the end of the list. As wl_list_insert() adds elements at the front of the
+ * list (like a stack) - without this helper-function - we have to use
+ * wl_list_insert(list.prev, element) which is verbose and not intuitive to
+ * anyone new to this API.
+ */
+static inline void
+wl_list_append(struct wl_list *list, struct wl_list *elm)
+{
+	wl_list_insert(list->prev, elm);
+}