From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/2] SquashFS
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:27:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050315172724.GO32638@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42370442.7020401@lougher.demon.co.uk>
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:50:26PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Paul Jackson wrote:
> >In the overall kernel (Linus's bk tree) I count:
> >
> > 733 lines matching 'for *( *; *; *)'
> > 718 lines matching 'while *( *1 *)'
> >
> >In the kernel/*.c files, I count 15 of the 'for(;;)' style and 1 of the
> >'while(1)' style.
> >
> >Certainly the 'for(;;)' style is acceptable, and even slightly to
> >substantially dominant, depending on which piece of code you're in.
> >
>
> I prefer the 'while' style, and only used 'for' because that's what I
> thought the kernel used.
>
> If no-one objects I'll change it back to while...
>
> Shouldn't issues like this be in the coding style document?
This particular point is rather trivial. Do whatever suits you.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-15 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 16:24 [PATCH][1/2] SquashFS Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 0:38 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-15 1:47 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-15 2:33 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-15 8:47 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-15 15:50 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 17:27 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2005-03-15 16:19 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 19:06 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-16 1:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-03-16 7:14 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-17 20:06 ` jerome lacoste
2005-03-15 0:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-19 1:56 ` Kmap_atomic vs Kmap Phillip Lougher
2005-03-19 3:41 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-20 23:11 ` Function stack size usage (was [PATCH][1/2] SquashFS) Phillip Lougher
2005-03-21 0:59 ` Andrew Morton
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