From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] list.h update (resent again)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:42:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020830005909.2F5542C19B@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:53:24 +0200." <20020829105324.A13720@lst.de>
In message <20020829105324.A13720@lst.de> you write:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:03:58PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Don't apply it (at least, the first part is bad).
> >
> > Linus, here's my patch to get rid of the usurper list_t in 2.5
> > (against 2.5.32, so might have some rejects).
>
> U don't think that's a valid reason to delay it. Ingo added list_t
> for a reason und 2.4 is not the right place to change struct list_head
> to struct list, which sounds good for 2.5.
Ingo's reason was that it made some of his lines fit in 80 cols 8)
Having two names for the same thing is a confusing waste, and "struct
list_head" is the defacto standard. If you have nothing better to do,
I can suggest plenty of worthwhile projects which could use your skills 8)
Die typedefs, die,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-30 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-29 0:16 [PATCH] list.h update (resent again) Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-29 6:03 ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-29 8:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-30 1:42 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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