Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:18:37 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] drivers: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t |
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> wrote: > So what is the rationale here. During mainlining our drivers we had to > remove all uses of 'typedef struct foo foo_t;'. The Linux CodingStyle > (chapter 5 Typedefs) is spending a number of lines explaining why. > > So is spinlock_t an exception to this rule simply because the kernel > uses spinlock_t all over the place.
Yes.
Luis
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