[PATCH v1 2/3] Documentation/CodingStyle: do not use data type names as variable names

Wei Wang
2023-03-04T04:19:56Z

Observed some merged code uses "bool" as variable name. This is
confusion either for the reader or compilier. Add a rule to have
programmers avoid using data types as variable names.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
---
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index 007e49ef6cec..6d7f4069d55d 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ specification that mandates those terms. For new specifications
translate specification usage of the terminology to the kernel coding
standard where possible.

+"bool", "int", "long" etc. are specific names for data types, C
+programmers should not use them as variable names.
+
5) Typedefs
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