linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: fix coding style

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Message-ID: <baa4e15-6c4c-a2ae-259a-f6cae6de837f@inria.fr>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:13:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Calvince Otieno <calvncce@...il.com>
cc:     gustavo@...eddedor.com, outreachy@...ts.linux.dev,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Martyn Welch <martyn@...chs.me.uk>,
        Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: fix coding style - remove
 CamelCasing

> As description states, checkpatch recommendation

This comment should be just under my text, that you are responding to, not
at the end of the patch.

CamelCase is not just the mixture of uppercase and lowercase letters.  It
means that the things with upper and lowercase letters are real words,
LikeThis.  In the case of this driver, the lowercase letter was not part
of an English word, so one can be suspicious that it has some other
meaning.  Checkpatch doesn't know what are real English words, so it makes
the suggestions whenever there is a mixture of uppercase and lowercase
letters.

julia