Re: style of function definitions (Re: [patch] bkl2mtd: cleanup)

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sunday 2008-03-30 06:29, Oleg Verych wrote:
> []
> > > > -static int block2mtd_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len,
> > > > +static int
> > > > +block2mtd_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len,
> > > >  		size_t *retlen, const u_char *buf)
> > >
> > > Again, why split it that way?
> >
> > these are really nuances, so unless you are interested in such nuances
> > nowhere found in CodingStyle, stop reading here :-)
>
> Nuances, or not, there are all kinds of stuff in Linux. Very small
> journey from simple `grep` and trivial multi-line `sed` to a huge
> discovery can be found here:
>
> http://kernelnewbies.org/olecom#Function_definitions
>
> No matter what coding style is, the winner is "linux-2.6/fs/xfs", and
> i doubt anyone can fix that :)

They at least have an excuse of having a historical unix background :)
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