[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Improve ITE IT8716F support.

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Feb 24 18:48:15 CET 2007


> gcc-compiled has it typedef'ed to a struct *.
>
> This usage will not continue in V3, since all code will be 
> gcc-compiled.

And typedef for struct pointers is a no-no with the v3
coding style (adopted from Linux); you could make an
exception for an often-used thing like this, but this
mail thread exemplifies why that is not such a good
idea: you really want to know the underlying type, so
why not write it out.


Segher





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