From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach checkpatch.pl about list_for_each
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:26:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080103122610.GA18255@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103111058.GE10861@shadowen.org>
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:10:58AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have had some stabs at changing this, but no consensus was reached on
> whether it was a "for" or a "function". My memory is of there being
> slightly more "without a space" tenders than the other and so it has not
> been changed. This thread also seems so far to have not really
> generated a concensus. So I would tend to leave things as they are.
>
> A third option might be to accept either on *for_each* constructs.
> That might tend to lead to divergance. Difficult. However, also see my
> later comments on "style guide".
Pretty much all core code uses list_for_each_entry( so new code should
follow that example.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-02 12:03 [PATCH] teach checkpatch.pl about list_for_each Christer Weinigel
2007-12-02 13:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2007-12-02 19:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-03 11:10 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-01-03 12:26 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-01-03 12:30 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-01-03 15:17 ` Benny Halevy
2008-01-03 23:12 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-03 11:23 ` pHilipp Zabel
2008-01-03 12:34 ` Tomas Carnecky
2008-01-03 23:10 ` Christer Weinigel
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