CodingStyle: mention bitfields/whitespace style, prefer (!foo) inexamples

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 05:46:21 EST



Mention whitespace and bitfields style, prefer (!foo) to (foo == NULL)
in examples.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 7f1730f..1595a45 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ used for indentation, and the above exam

Get a decent editor and don't leave whitespace at the end of lines.

+Bitfield variables should be indented like this:
+
+ unsigned int foo :1;
+
+Do not put whitespace between any of the unary operators and their operand.
+
+It is usually unnecessary to have whitespace around parentheses as
+part of expressions, around brackets, or around the operators . and
+->.

Chapter 2: Breaking long lines and strings

@@ -403,7 +412,7 @@ int fun(int a)
int result = 0;
char *buffer = kmalloc(SIZE);

- if (buffer == NULL)
+ if (!buffer)
return -ENOMEM;

if (condition1) {

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