Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Wei Wang <> | Subject | [PATCH v1 2/3] Documentation/CodingStyle: do not use data type names as variable names | Date | Sat, 4 Mar 2023 12:19:31 +0800 |
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Observed some merged code uses "bool" as variable name. This is confusion either for the reader or compilier. Add a rule to have programmers avoid using data types as variable names.
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com> --- Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst index 007e49ef6cec..6d7f4069d55d 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst @@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ specification that mandates those terms. For new specifications translate specification usage of the terminology to the kernel coding standard where possible. +"bool", "int", "long" etc. are specific names for data types, C +programmers should not use them as variable names. + 5) Typedefs ----------- -- 2.27.0
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