Re: [PATCH][RFC] Linux VM hooks for advanced RDMA NICs

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 03:24:46 EST


On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 13:13 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 18:57 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > >
> > > +static inline void
> > > +ioproc_release(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > > +{
> >
> > Return types on same line as function name makes grep'ing a lot
> > easier/nicer.
> >
> > Here's the example from Documentation/CodingStyle :
> >
> > int function(int x)
> > {
>
> How so? I never understood the reasons. This makes it easier to grep
> for everything that returns int. But you make the common case (what
> file is function() defined in?) harder.

Not exactly. I used the 2-lines style for a while, and changed overtime
and now can't stand anything but the one line style :)

I recommend you read the mailing list archives for linus comments on
this issue btw.

Ben.


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