Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: add typedefs chapter | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 02 May 2006 09:17:34 -0400 |
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>>>>> "David" == David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
David> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 23:01 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> find rc3 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i -pe >> 's/\btask_t\b/struct task_struct' >> >> + a compile test afterwards. Something I missed? (Besides that >> lines may get longer and violate the 80-column CodingStyle rule.)
David> If we're going to do that, we might as well make it 'struct David> task'. The additional '_struct' is redundant.
There were some long discussions about that a couple of years ago. I believe Linus stated that he preferred _struct for those things.
It is also less likely to hit name clashes.
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