linux-kernel - Re: Coding Style: Reverse XMAS tree declarations ? (was Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/10] dpaa

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Message-ID: <5d4925c3-e6c1-8780-37bf-6d529f128cd9@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 10:05:15 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        madalin.bucur@....com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oss@...error.net,
        ppc@...dchasers.com, pebolle@...cali.nl,
        joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se
Subject: Re: Coding Style: Reverse XMAS tree declarations ? (was Re: [PATCH
 net-next v6 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet)

On 11/03/16 23:53, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 15:58 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@....com>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 22:17:26 +0200
>>
>>> This introduces the Freescale Data Path Acceleration Architecture
>>> +static inline size_t bpool_buffer_raw_size(u8 index, u8 cnt)
>>> +{
>>> +     u8 i;
>>> +     size_t res = DPAA_BP_RAW_SIZE / 2;
>>
>> Always order local variable declarations from longest to shortest line,
>> also know as Reverse Christmas Tree Format.
> 
> I think this declaration sorting order is misguided but
> here's a possible change to checkpatch adding a test for it
> that does this test just for net/ and drivers/net/

I agree with the misguided part.
That's not actually in CodingStyle AFAICT. Where did this come from?


thanks.
-- 
~Randy