RE: [PATCH] Moorestown RAR Handler driver, MRST 2.6.31-rc3

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Aug 03 2009 - 13:45:47 EST


On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:32 -0700, Othman, Ossama wrote:
> >It is recommended to separate definition,
> >and assignment.
> >So this should look like this:
> > struct memrar_allocator *allocator;
> > allocator = 0;
> Okay, I'll fix that, too. Should this go into Documentation/CodingStyle, too?

I don't agree with that at all, neither does a lot of the kernel source.

Automatic structs with initializers:
$ grep -rP --include=*.c "^\s+struct\s+\w+\s*\*\s*\w+\s*=\s*\w+\s*;" * | wc -l
9498

I think it should be struct memrar_allocator *allocator = NULL;


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