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

From: Othman, Ossama
Date: Mon Aug 03 2009 - 13:53:36 EST


>> >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;

Got it. I've already started changing all zero pointer initializations to NULL instead. I'll also leave the declaration and initialization on the same line for now.

Thanks again!
-Ossama
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