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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "Michael S. Zick" <lkml@morethan.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"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 21:39:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090603193918.GF3100@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906031211.49890.lkml@morethan.org>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:11:47PM -0500, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> 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.

Use __section() to define a section.
See init.h for usage and compiler.h for definition.

	Sam

      reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03 19:37 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
2009-06-03 19:39     ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]

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