[PATCH 0/6] drivers: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof at do-not-panic.com
Fri Nov 30 11:18:37 PST 2012


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend at 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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