Re: [RFC PATCH 17/17] CODING_STYLE: Add a section on header guards naming conventions

[Alessandro Zucchelli <alessandro.zucchelli@bugseng.com>]

On 2024-07-15 09:23, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 13.07.2024 00:38, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Jul 2024, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> I further have to note that, as indicated during the earlier 
>>> discussion,
>>> I still cannot see how occasional ambiguity is going to be dealt 
>>> with.
>>> IOW from the rules above two different headers could still end up 
>>> with
>>> the same guard identifier.
>> 
>> Maybe something like this?
>> 
>> "In the event of naming collisions, exceptions to the coding style may
>> be made at the discretion of the contributor and maintainers."
> 
> Hmm, maybe I wasn't clear enough then. My take is that the scheme 
> should
> simply not allow for possible collisions. Neither the contributor nor 
> the
> reviewer may spot such a collision, and it may therefore take until the
> first full scan that one is actually noticed. Which I consider too late
> in the process, even if we already were at the point where commits were
> checked pre-push.
> 

If we could come to an agreement, I will make the new version of the 
patch
series with all the needed changes.
-- 
Alessandro Zucchelli, B.Sc.

Software Engineer, BUGSENG (https://bugseng.com)