Re: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Russell King wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:57:13PM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> > +int foo(
> > +	long bar,
> > +	long day,
> > +	struct magic *xyzzy
> > +)
> 
> Is this really part of the kernel coding style?

No, but it's better than what it used to be.

Also, while I don't think we should try to maintain 1:1 behaviour with 
the _worst_ offenses of zlib, I do think we should maintain comments etc, 
and a lot of the zlib function declarations used to look like

	int foo(bar, baz)
	long bar;		/* number of frobnicators */
	long baz;		/* self-larting on or off */
	{
		....

and the ANSI-fication changes this to

	int foo(
		long bar,	/* number of frobnicators */
		long baz	/* self-larting on or off */
	)
	{
		...

which while not according to the coding-standard is at least a reasonable 
compromize between having proper C function definitions and keeping the 
code _looking_ more like the original.

		Linus