linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] cleanup: adjust scoped_guard() to avoid potential warning

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Message-ID: <ac59684b-37fc-4e47-b496-e6f9bac87b8c@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 12:13:53 +0200
From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>, <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
CC: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Andy
 Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
	Amadeusz Sławiński
	<amadeuszx.slawinski@...ux.intel.com>, Dan Carpenter
	<dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	"Kees Cook" <kees@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Tony
 Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] cleanup: adjust scoped_guard() to avoid potential
 warning

On 10/3/24 18:00, Markus Elfring wrote:
>> …
>>
>>>>   "__" prefix added to internal macros;
>>
>> …
>>
>>> Would you get into the mood to reconsider the usage of leading underscores
>>> any more for selected identifiers?
>>> https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/DCL37-C.+Do+not+declare+or+define+a+reserved+identifier
>>
>> The mentioned URL doesn't cover the special cases like the kernels of the
>> operating systems or other quite low level code.
> Can such a view be clarified further according to available information?
> 
> Regards,
> Markus

could you please update CMU SEI wiki to be relevant for kernel drivers
development, so future generations of C bureaucrats would not be fooled?