Hi,

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Michal Simek<[email protected]> wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Michal Simek<[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Cyril Hrubis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> What's wrong with linux kernel coding style? Most of the decent text 
>>>>>> editors
>>>>>> that are used these days (vim, emacs...) just helps format code like 
>>>>>> this. (Eg.
>>>>>> default intendation is done by tabs and so on...) I don't like the idea
>>>>>> changing tabs to spaces before sending a patch.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> There is only one thing which is IMHO not good - it is 80 char line size.
>>>>> I would prefer longer lines (maybe 120 chars).
>>>>> This is for C code not for any other.
>>>>> Are you ok with it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Well, I'm not happy with very long lines, but there are indeed 
>>>> circumstances
>>>> where long lines are best solution.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am not happy with it too but there are some cases where is really ugly
>>> to have 80chars lines.
>>>
>>
>> IMHO 95% of the time you can get away with shorter lines with
>> different constructs or more clever indentation.
> I don't want to do any clever indentation. This discuss is again and
> again the same!!!
>
> I vote for standard linux indentation - tab (size 8 chars) for whole C code.
> Follow linux kernel coding style for whole C code. As we discussed in
> this thread 80 chars line are strongly recommended.
> For checking C source code use checkpatch.pl script which is in linux
> kernel before sending patches to mailing list
> and of course checking patches before applying.
>
> Cyril, Mike, Subrata and others: Can you send us your opinion?

i agree with Michal Simek.

Best regards,
Naresh Kamboju

 >I don't
> want to spend my time with discuss about it.
>
> I am not interested in any other code that's why I don't write any
> comment to it.
> You can choose what you want. Of course if is similar utility like
> checkpatch.pl it will be good to use it and not to check
> it by hand.
>
> Subrata can we please write output from this discussion to web / doc
> somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Michal
>
>
>> Take for example what
>> I just did with delete_module* -- now that was a mess to cleanup, but
>> quick nonetheless and necessary:
>> http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/module/delete_module/delete_module01.c?view=log&pathrev=makefile_infra_rework
>> , 
>> http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/module/delete_module/delete_module02.c?view=log&pathrev=makefile_infra_rework
>> , 
>> http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/module/delete_module/delete_module03.c?view=log&pathrev=makefile_infra_rework
>>
>> We should aim for 80 column lines wherever possible because it's the
>> defacto standard, and where we can't do that (and there are a handful
>> of areas with shell code and Makefile code where I couldn't without
>> changing the meaning of the message I was trying to convey), we should
>> go over 80 cols.
>>
>> At least that's how every project I know has done it.
>>
>> General rules of thumb for shell / python / perl code (from dealing
>> with other projects) was 4 space indents. Perl tends to go whacky
>> though because of all of the different ways to express constructs
>> though xD.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Garrett
>>
>
>
> --
> Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng)
> PetaLogix - Linux Solutions for a Reconfigurable World
> w: www.petalogix.com p: +61-7-30090663,+42-0-721842854 f: +61-7-30090663
>
>

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