Re: CVS commit: src/sys

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:
> In article <20060415063916.9009B23402%thoreau.thistledown.com.au@localhost>,
> Simon Burge  <simonb%wasabisystems.com@localhost> wrote:
>>Brett Lymn wrote:
>>
>>> Module Name:        src
>>> Committed By:       blymn
>>> Date:               Fri Apr 14 13:09:07 UTC 2006
>>> 
>>> ...
>>>     src/sys/sys: iostat.h
>>
>>The new "struct io_stats" has members like:
>>
>>        char            *name;  /* device name */
>>        void            *parent; /* pointer to what we are attached to */
>>        int             type;   /* type of device the state belong to */
>>        int             busy;   /* busy counter */
>>
>>Should these names have io_ prefixes?  The current names are a bit
>>"generic", and could cause issues in code that includes <sys/iostat.h>.
>>
> They should. Let's do it.

Er, we live in an age of modern compilers -- the namespace inside
structs is struct specific. Why do struct members need prefixes like
io_?

Perry