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From: j.neuschaefer@gmx.net (Jonathan Neuschäfer)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: questions about the codingstyle in linux kernel.
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:14:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110625191441.GC10371@debian.debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=-+QSz9LSOnu0UWfE_BedkPojsUQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:28:46AM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 20:25, B tw <kis.btw@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why the coding style in include/linux/page-flags.h is Camel Case? It
> > is so ugly and uncoordinated.
> 
> consider it as blessing in disguise :) throw some patches to fix them
> to LKML and see how others think about it....

This code has been around for a long time, so there may be quite some
out-of-tree drivers/patches depending on the spelling, and as with
every (?) API the change should be done through
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.

But now that we have Coccinelle[1], it might turn out to be quite easy
to get rid of this camel-case spelling.

[1] http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Btw, if you set off a discussion on the lkml regarding this, please CC me :).

Thanks,
	Jonathan Neusch?fer

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-25 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24 13:25 questions about the codingstyle in linux kernel B tw
2011-06-25  4:28 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-25 19:14   ` Jonathan Neuschäfer [this message]
2011-06-25 19:57     ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-26  5:13     ` B tw

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