Re: [lustre-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] staging: lustre: detypedef

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 15:58 +0000, Simmons, James A. wrote:
> > When would be an appropriate time to submit patches similar to
> > below that individually remove various typedefs from lustre code?
> > 
> > These are pretty trivial to produce and verify so there's no
> > particular hurry to do them now but applying them will require
> > resync points for active and actually useful developers.

> Actually could you hold off for the LNet core and LND drivers these
> changes. I have plans to push a few more LNet patches soon. I have
> been just waiting for everyone to figure out how to deal with the 
> latest changes to the infinband layer first.

Sure.  No worries.

> There are a few typedefs like lnet_nid_t I like to keep or if it has to
> be changed turn it into a struct then. Things like lnet_nid_t act like
> a cookie handle.

Fine by me.