From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Workqueue Abstraction, 2.5.40-H7
Date: 02 Oct 2002 12:23:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoy99hcym9.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210012300001.23315-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> then lets at least have 'struct work' and 'struct work_queue' instead of
> 'struct work_struct', 'struct work_queue_struct'. "struct work" is already
> twice as large as "work_t".
I've always wondered about that -- why _does_ linux append `_struct' to
some structure names? It seems completely redundant (and ugly).
Thanks,
-Miles
--
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-02 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 20:29 [patch] Workqueue Abstraction, 2.5.40-H7 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-01 21:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-02 3:23 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-10-02 19:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-10-01 21:09 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-10-01 21:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-03 1:38 ` Kevin O'Connor
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-01 18:52 Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-10-02 3:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-01 16:24 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 17:55 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-10-01 21:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 18:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-01 18:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 21:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-01 21:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 19:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-01 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-01 21:32 ` Kristian Hogsberg
2002-10-03 18:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-04 23:20 ` Kristian Hogsberg
2002-10-02 4:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-01 21:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-02 8:22 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-10-08 3:50 ` Jeff Dike
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