netdev - Re: Nested function in drivers/of/of

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Message-ID: <20091008111427.GA16941@iram.es>
Date:	Thu, 8 Oct 2009 13:14:27 +0200
From:	Gabriel Paubert <paubert@...m.es>
To:	Jérôme Pouiller <j.pouiller@...mic.fr>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Nested function in drivers/of/of_mdio.c

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Jérôme Pouiller wrote:
> I did some grep on codebase. I have not found any other instances of 
> nested functions, but my regexps are not enough to be 100% sure.

>From Documentation/CodingStyle, written by the Head Penguin himself:

"Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency
is ...  well ...  inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that
(a) K&R are _right_ and (b) K&R are right.  Besides, functions are
special anyway (you can't nest them in C)."
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I interpret it as a clear prohibition of using nested functions
in the kernel.  

	Regards,
	Gabriel
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