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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:28:29 +0300
From: Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL PATCH] Remove list_t infection.
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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
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