Re: [patch] Workqueue Abstraction, 2.5.40-H7

Miles Bader
2002-10-02T03:18:56Z

Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> then lets at least have 'struct work' and 'struct work_queue' instead of
> 'struct work_struct', 'struct work_queue_struct'. "struct work" is already
> twice as large as "work_t".

I've always wondered about that -- why _does_ linux append `_struct' to
some structure names? It seems completely redundant (and ugly).

Thanks,

-Miles
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