From: "Michael S. Zick" <lkml@morethan.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC: Style] Kernel coding style for Extended Attributes.
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:11:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906031211.49890.lkml@morethan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906030843340.4880@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed June 3 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> >
> > Is there a recommended style for the kernel source?
>
> I think the recommended style is:
>
> "Hide them behind a macro so that they never show up in the source".
>
That seems to be the general consensus in (/by) practice.
Thanks,
Mike
> and then basically nobody will care about whether there is a space between
> the __attribute__ and '(('.
>
> Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-03 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-03 15:37 [RFC: Style] Kernel coding style for Extended Attributes Michael S. Zick
2009-06-03 15:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-06-03 17:11 ` Michael S. Zick [this message]
2009-06-03 19:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
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