Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964839AbWA3Rri (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:47:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964842AbWA3Rri (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:47:38 -0500 Received: from mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.0.14]:28099 "EHLO mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964839AbWA3Rrh (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:47:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1138642737.22903.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <43DAD4DB.4090708@us.ibm.com> <1138637931.19801.101.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43DE45A4.6010808@us.ibm.com> <1138640666.19801.106.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43DE4A1D.4050501@us.ibm.com> <1138642737.22903.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <26c21a6abef89d4629a0da08bc0ba9bf@cl.cam.ac.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Greg KH , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, lkml , "Mike D. Day" From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.6-xen] sysfs attributes for xen Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:53:30 +0000 To: Dave Hansen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 23 On 30 Jan 2006, at 17:38, Dave Hansen wrote: > Yes, they are. Buuuuuuut, you _can_ make the code around them a little > less evil. If you _must_ use a typedef, you could do something like > this: > > #define XEN_CAP_INFO_LEN_BYTES 1024 > typedef char [XEN_CAP_INFO_LEN_BYTES] xen_capabilities_info_t; Is that really better than just referencing the typedef? I've always considered them okay for simple scalar and array types, even if they are to be avoided for structure types. Is it the size aspect that is the problem (e.g., a typedef'ed type should be okay to allocate on the stack)? -- Keir - 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/