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From:   "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
Subject: Guide on useful helpers
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:46:26 +0200
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Hello folks,


do we already have some guide (or at least a list of) useful helpers
that can/should be used for more compact/maintainable code ?

I sometimes learn about those by accident (eg. watching at patches
floating around, comments on patches by other folks, reading existing
driver code, ...), but haven't found any guide/docs on that yet.

If there isn't any such guide yet, I'll volounteer for starting and
maintaining it.

Note: I certainly don't intent to duplicate (in-code) function
documentation, but instead some collection of useful tips, that can
be quickly read. Maybe it could be kinda FAQ list.


--mtx

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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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