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From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: Jay Denebeim <denebeim@deepthot.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: coding style question
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:40:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040225144037.A1284@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402251128430.6557-100000@dent.deepthot.org>; from denebeim@deepthot.org on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:40:27AM -0700

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:40:27AM -0700, Jay Denebeim wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 06:16:48PM +0000, Jay Denebeim wrote:
> (I mentioned typedefs being removed)
> > > what was the reasoning for this?
> > 
> > We hate typedefs.
> 
> Well, that's certainly convincing.  Funny that, I don't recall hating
> typedefs, in fact I distinctly recall liking them and being happy when
> they were added to Lattice's Amiga compiler back in the stone age.  Is
> there some particular reason 'we' hate them?

Hi here's part of Greg's presentation from some time back:

http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2002_kernel_codingstyle_talk/html/mgp00024.html

Really you want the next slide off the above ;-)

-- Patrick Mansfield

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-25 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-25 18:16 coding style question Jay Denebeim
2004-02-25 18:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-25 18:40   ` Jay Denebeim
2004-02-25 19:29     ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-25 19:37       ` Jay Denebeim
2004-02-26  0:02         ` Bryan Henderson
2004-02-25 22:40     ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2004-02-26 16:09       ` Clay Haapala
2004-02-26  1:28     ` Jeff Garzik

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