linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1601051128150.1666-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:29:46 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:	"Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 11:06 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Trying to come up with hard-and-fast rules for this sort of thing is 
> > pretty hopeless.  Even "Maximize readability" doesn't work too well, 
> > because different people find different things most readable.
> 
> Readability is mostly habituation.

Indeed.

> Align to open parenthesis is relatively easy to implement,
> but it can get out of hand too with long naming.

That's why I dislike it.  Plus the fact that it results in
continuations of different lines being indented by different amounts.

Alan Stern

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