[PATCH 03/10] IOCHK interface for I/O error handling/detecting

[Hidetoshi Seto]

Greg KH wrote:
>> /* definition of ia64 iocookie */
>>-typedef unsigned long iocookie;
>>+struct __iocookie {
>>+	struct list_head	list;
>>+	struct pci_dev		*dev;	/* targeting device */
>>+	unsigned long		error;	/* error flag */
>>+};
>>+typedef struct __iocookie iocookie;
> 
> Hm, why not just make the thing be a "struct iocookie" in the first
> place, then we don't have to mess with a typedef at all.  And then each
> arch can define how the structure will look like in their private .c
> files, ensuring that no user can ever try to touch the structure
> themselves.

Aha.., maybe I understand it just now.
I don't know why, but I just stuck to typedef...

Thanks,
H.Seto