Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function
	declarations.
From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
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Date: 30 May 2003 14:25:07 -0600
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On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 14:14, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2003 13:57:13 -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe the following should be unnecessary after all these years since
> > the ANSI C standard was introduced, but several files associated with
> > zlib were using the old-style function declaration.
> > 
> > So, here is a proposed addition to CodingStyle, just to make it clear.
> 
> In the case of the zlib, just leave it as it is.  The less changes we
> make, to easier it is to merge upstream changes into the kernel.
> 
> J?rn

Whoops, sorry.  Linus started the old-style to new-style conversion in
zlib_inflate a few days ago, and I've sent Linus several patches
finishing the job in zlib_deflate and elsewhere.  Some are already in
the tree.

Steven

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