From: Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@zip.com.au
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection.
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:28:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020906092829.GA32379@callisto.yi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020902003318.7CB682C092@lists.samba.org>
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 03:23:02PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> This week, it spread to SCTP.
>
> "struct list_head" isn't a great name, but having two names for
> everything is yet another bar to reading kernel source.
>
[...]
>
> D: This removes list_t, which is a gratuitous typedef for a "struct
> D: list_head". Unless there is good reason, the kernel doesn't usually
> D: typedef, as typedefs cannot be predeclared unlike structs.
>
Good, I see it was actually a *good* thing that I've done a
's/struct list_head/list_t' in list.h, back when I was adding list_move_*().
Otherwise, we wouldn't have noticed much the appearance of list_t, and it
might have spread throughout the kernel by the time we reach 2.6.0.
task_t, anyone?
--
Dan Aloni
da-x@gmx.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-06 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-02 5:23 [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection Rusty Russell
2002-09-02 5:51 ` Robert Love
2002-09-02 6:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-02 6:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:11 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:05 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:11 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:25 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-02 10:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-03 22:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-09-03 23:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04 0:41 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 1:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-04 2:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04 2:44 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 14:36 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-09-04 6:11 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-02 6:23 ` Neil Brown
2002-09-01 20:45 ` Nick Piggin
2002-09-02 6:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-02 10:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 10:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-02 6:17 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06 9:28 ` Dan Aloni [this message]
2002-09-06 14:35 ` Robert Love
2002-09-09 5:57 ` Rusty Russell
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