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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Avoid Camelcase
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:31:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150926203103.GA17373@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO393ABrjK9mAfjasmiy8ngapa-zequPQtQR9CyDGFg6D2qE+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 01:52:48AM +0530, Shraddha Barke wrote:
> What should be done about the "Avoid Camelcase" CHECK detected by checkpatch.pl
> for patches ?

Fix up the code to not use CamelCase :)

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase for what this is, and read
the CodingStyle kernel file for what to use instead.

hope this helps,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-26 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-26 20:22 Avoid Camelcase Shraddha Barke
2015-09-26 20:31 ` Greg KH [this message]

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