linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] Moorestown RAR Handler driver, MRST 2.6.31-rc3

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Message-Id: <1249321533.5149.21.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
Date:	Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:45:33 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"Othman, Ossama" <ossama.othman@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Moorestown RAR Handler driver, MRST 2.6.31-rc3

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:32 -0700, Othman, Ossama wrote:
> >It is recommended to separate definition,
> >and assignment.
> >So this should look like this:
> >	struct memrar_allocator *allocator;
> >	allocator = 0;
> Okay, I'll fix that, too.  Should this go into Documentation/CodingStyle, too?

I don't agree with that at all, neither does a lot of the kernel source.

Automatic structs with initializers:
$ grep -rP --include=*.c "^\s+struct\s+\w+\s*\*\s*\w+\s*=\s*\w+\s*;" * | wc -l
9498

I think it should be struct memrar_allocator *allocator = NULL;


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