Re: Coding style on function signatures (was: Convert tasklets to work queues )

[Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>]

>> static ssize_t
>> store_fan_div (struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *devattr,
>>                     const char *buf, size_t count)
>> {...}
>> 
>> 
>> IIRC, many like the entire sig on one line, because its grep friendly.
>> I personally like the above, but grep-ability is hard to argue against.
>
> (I expect that "you" above means Linus, but anyway...)
>
> Some people like the above so that the function name can be grepped
> using a "^store_fan_div" regex, but that's not good enough reason
> for it for others, including Linus, IIRC.

Right. I was reading some LKML archives, and what i know, that returning
type of the function is the first thing Linus cared about.

Newbies homework to think why (and care more about such things and not
of the look).

--
-o--=O`C
 #oo'L O
<___=E M