linux.git/Documentation/CodingStyle, branch v2.6.22-rc2

Fix chapter reference in CodingStyle

2007-05-08T18:15:13+00:00

commit 226a6b84aaaf1fac7a5d41cf4e7387fd9ba895d5 renumbered Chapter 11 in
Documentation/CodingStyle to Chapter 12, but it didn't update the reference
to that chapter further down in the file.  This patch corrects the chapter
reference.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces

2007-05-08T18:15:12+00:00

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum 
Cc: Tilman Schmidt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add a new section to CodingStyle, promoting include/linux/kernel.h

2006-12-22T16:55:49+00:00

Add a new section to the CodingStyle file, encouraging people not to
re-invent available kernel macros such as ARRAY_SIZE(), FIELD_SIZEOF(),
min() and max(), among others.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] CodingStyle updates

2006-12-10T17:55:40+00:00

Add some kernel coding style comments, mostly pulled from emails
by Andrew Morton, Jesper Juhl, and Randy Dunlap.

- add paragraph on switch/case indentation (with fixes)
- add paragraph on multiple-assignments
- add more on Braces
- add section on Spaces; add typeof, alignof, & __attribute__ with sizeof;
  add more on postfix/prefix increment/decrement operators
- add paragraph on function breaks in source files; add info on
  function prototype parameter names
- add paragraph on EXPORT_SYMBOL placement
- add section on /*-comment style, long-comment style, and data
  declarations and comments
- correct some chapter number references that were missed when
  chapters were renumbered

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl 
Acked-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add section on function return values to CodingStyle

2006-09-29T16:18:22+00:00

This patch (as776) adds a new chapter to Documentation/CodingStyle,
explaining the circumstances under which a function should return 0 for
failure and non-zero for success as opposed to a negative error code for
failure and 0 for success.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] CodingStyle: add typedefs chapter

2006-06-23T14:43:08+00:00

Add a chapter on typedefs, copied from an email from Linus to lkml on Feb.
3, 2006.  (Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers:
startup)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] CodingStyle correction

2006-01-10T16:01:52+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add a section about inlining to Documentation/CodingStyle

2006-01-09T04:14:06+00:00

Adds a bit of text to Documentation/Codingstyle to state that inlining
everything "just because" is a bad idea

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] docs: updated some code docs

2006-01-09T04:13:53+00:00

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] CodingStyle: memory allocation

2005-09-17T18:50:02+00:00

This patch adds a new chapter on memory allocation to
Documentation/CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds