Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: add typedefs chapter

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "David" == David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Jes
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