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Date:      Tue, 1 Nov 2011 02:07:43 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl <marius@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r226947 - in head/sys: dev/esp sparc64/sbus
Message-ID:  <20111101020743.GA14822@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111031233854.Y1523@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201110302117.p9ULHgLD085245@svn.freebsd.org> <20111031042526.GA57014@FreeBSD.org> <20111031233854.Y1523@besplex.bde.org>

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On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:01:16AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >   When convention requires a typedef, make its name match the struct tag.
> >   Avoid typedefs ending in _t, except as specified in Standard C or by
> >   POSIX.
> >
> > Do these rules not apply for struct device for some reason?
> 
> Yes (they don't apply here).  device_t is one of a few properly opaque
> typedefs for struct pointers.  'struct device' is only (completely)
> declared in kern/subr_bus.c.  Thus the implementation details of it
> obviously cannot escape to drivers.  Most of the APIs in <sys/bus.h>
> are supposed to be like this.  But `typedef struct kobj_class driver_t'
> and `#define driver_method_t kobj_method_t' are gross exceptions.
> <sys/bus.h> has to include <sys/kobj.h> for dereferencing these, and
> kobj.h breaks the rule by providing both typedefs for struct pointers
> and complete struct declarations.

Thanks for detailed explanation Bruce.

./danfe



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