Re: checkpatch guide for newbies

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:29:49PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> I was about to disagree because I've never seen variables named a, b
> or c, but I found that there are at least 2238 variables named a, b or
> c in linux-next. This is not good.
> 

In XGIfb_mode_rate_to_ddata() we have:

	int B, C, D, F, temp, j;

The A and E variables were removed when the code was refactored.  ;P
Places like this are fairly rare in the kernel outside of the staging/
directory.

There are lots of times where a single letter variable name is very
natural.

	char c;

C is terse.  This is explained in Documentation/CodingStyle.

regards,
dan carpenter

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