Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add tpm_xenu.ko: Xen Virtual TPM frontenddriver

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Thu Nov 08 2012 - 03:48:08 EST


> > >>+typedef struct tpmif_tx_request tpmif_tx_request_t;
> > > checkpatch warned on this new typedef - please run through checkpatch
> > >and fix up that stuff.
> > tpmif.h has a couple of typedefs which do trigger checkpatch
> > warnings. However it looks like the paradigm for xen is to have
> > these interface/io/<dev>if.h files and all of them have typedefs. I
> > think in this case the typedef should probably stay.
> >
> > Konrad your thoughts here?
>
> Rip them out plea

This is somewhere that Linux coding style and Xen coding style differ,
so the typedefs should be removed from the Linux copy of these
interfaces to match the Linux coding style, but they should stay in the
Xen side canonical copy though.

Ian.

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