https://lwn.net/Articles/9107/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Ending the list_t scourge". en-us Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:50:13 +0000 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:50:13 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/9272/ https://lwn.net/Articles/9272/ Phaeton Well, the Kernel hacker community seems to be<br>a good soil for heated discussions, partially<br>leaving technical aspects, or such with good<br>foundation out.<p>Someone with a loud voice had a big opinion,<br>and that's why it's going that way now...<p>Yes, I see that some people prefer to know that<br>the type they're handling IS a struct; and that<br>is a good reason. Predeclaring isn't, as you<br>have shown.<p>Pity with linux is that the core can't seem to<br>reach an agreement basing on technical facts<br>only - which is its greatest weakness I assume. Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:32:12 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/9236/ https://lwn.net/Articles/9236/ unaiur typedef can also be predeclared:<br> struct list_head;<br> typedef struct list_head list_t;<br> Thu, 05 Sep 2002 14:29:34 +0000