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

From: Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 15:18:54 EST


On Fri, 30 May 2003 13:57:13 -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
>
> Maybe the following should be unnecessary after all these years since
> the ANSI C standard was introduced, but several files associated with
> zlib were using the old-style function declaration.
>
> So, here is a proposed addition to CodingStyle, just to make it clear.

In the case of the zlib, just leave it as it is. The less changes we
make, to easier it is to merge upstream changes into the kernel.

Jörn

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