linux-kernel - Re: [patch] ipc/msg.c: clean up coding style

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Message-ID: <20060728085315.GA14622@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:53:15 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ipc/msg.c: clean up coding style


* James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > > Let's not go BSD way.
> > 
> > again, lets not have overlong line 80 prototypes.
> 
> I thought Linus gave his blessing for long lines for prototypes (up to 
> 120 chars?), to make it easier to grep the code for function 
> prototypes.

i think that's a tool issue. If you need multiline grep, use the 'mg' 
perl-script from:

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/mg_multi_line_grep/

for example, to see all syscall prototypes in kernel/*.c:

  mg -e "asmlinkage.*\n*.*sys.*\n*.*{" kernel/*.c

	Ingo
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