Re: [PATCH 4/9] CodingStyle: mention "typedef struct S {} S;" if typedef is used

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>]

Em Fri,  9 May 2025 23:34:25 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> escreveu:

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index ac9c1dbe00b7..5c5902a0f897 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -443,6 +443,20 @@ EVER use a typedef unless you can clearly match one of those rules.
>  In general, a pointer, or a struct that has elements that can reasonably
>  be directly accessed should **never** be a typedef.
>  
> +If you must use ``typedef`` consider using identical names for both the type
> +and its alias so that the type can be forward declared if necessary:

Better not, as symbols with duplicated names will generate a Sphinx warning (*). 

(*) It shouldn't, but there is a pending issue on Sphinx since version 3.1
    still not addressed:

	https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/8313

Regards,

Thanks,
Mauro