On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 06:49:40PM +0200, Marcus Wolf wrote: > > Hi Simon, Hi,
> > thanks for your effort. > > I have two questions: > * According to my practical experiance, enums were always written in lower > case. Does kernel style guide ask for upper case for enums? Yes. From Documentation/process/coding-style.rst: "Names of macros defining constants and labels in enums are capitalized". > For me upper case indicates, that this value will be processed by > preprocessor, not by compiler. So I used it for define constants and macros > so far... For me a upper case identifier indicates something that has a constant value. Therefore I think it makes sense that enum labels are capitalized. > * The enums are the interface to user space. Isn't it necessary to increse > the interface version number on every change of the enums? > Or can we stay with old version number, since order of the enums is > untouched? Good question. I read the note about having to change ioctl number if the contents of the struct ever change, but is this also true if only the name of a variable change? I mean, the actual content is still the same. I will investigate this more and get back to you. > > Thanks, > > Marcus Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
