Re: [PATCH v4 01/12] CODING_STYLE: Custom type names must be snake-cased by word.

[Alejandro Vallejo <agarciav@amd.com>]

On Mon Jun 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM CEST, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 20.06.2025 20:28, Alejandro Vallejo wrote:
>> There's the unwritten convention in x86 of splitting type names using
>> underscores. Add such convention to the CODINNG_STYLE to make it
>> common and less unwritten.
>
> Just curious: How does x86 come into play here? Xen inherited this un-
> written rule from Linux, afaict.
>
> Jan

x86 follows the rule far more strictly than other Xen ports. Even in Linux it's
not uncommon to see some words stashed together because they represent a single
concept. e.g: "bootmode", "bootram", "bootmod", "bootaddr", etc. Some of them
inherited by Xen itself, like "softirq".

But I digress. I mentioned x86 because it's the most traceable use of the rule
as written in CODING_STYLE in this patch.  When or why you decided to do so is
another matter entirely which I very definitely do not know.

If you feel the commit message should be something else, I'm happy for it to be
such something else.

Cheers,
Alejandro