On Wednesday 01 October 2008 02:46:59 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Quite frankly, I personally do hate typedefs that end up being pointers, > and used as pointers, without showing that in the source code. ... > I'm now a bit more leery about this whole thing just > because the typedef ends up hiding so much - it doesn't just hide the > basic type, it hides a very basic *code* issue. Yes, this is why my version of the rework moved away from typedefs, except for the special case of "cpumask_var_t" for stack vars where this trick is really desired. Everywhere else, the code becomes nice and clear: struct cpumask *. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
