Re: [PATCH] sb1250-duart.c: SB1250 DUART serial support

[Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 19:16:20 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
[snip]
> > WARNING: declaring multiple variables together should be avoided
> > #372: FILE: drivers/serial/sb1250-duart.c:246:
> > +	unsigned int mctrl, status;
>
>  Well, this is probably superfluous -- why would anyone prefer:
>
> 	int r0;
> 	int r1;
> 	int r2;
> 	int r3;
> 	int r4;
>
> to:
>
> 	int r0, r1, r2, r3, r4;
>
> unconditionally?

Imagine you're working on a piece of kernel code that has a lot of parallel 
churn. Conflicts on lines like "int a,b,c,d;" are more likely to cause Andrew 
et al pain, which I guess is the rationale for discouraging it. Conversely, 
if the variables are kept separate, diff handles it fine.

I think as long as the variables are logically grouped, the pain is minimised, 
but there's a few good reasons for the verbose style.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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