Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:56:24 +0530 | From | Manik Raina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 - list.h cleanup |
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> The linux coding style _tends_ to avoid using typedefs. It's not a hard > rule (and I did in fact apply this patch, since it otherwise looked fine), > but it's fairly common to use an explicit "struct xxxx" instead of > "xxxx_t". >
Besides , if someone's browsing the code using 'gid' one would have to first discover where xxxx_t is defined and realise it's typedef'ed to struct _xxxx_t and then we'd start to find where the heck _xxxx_t is .
I'm not saying code needs to be written keeping in mind ease with which we can run code browsing tools, but avoiding unnecessary typedefs can certainly help here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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