Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933207AbWLaURH (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:17:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933210AbWLaURH (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:17:07 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:60697 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933207AbWLaURG (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:17:06 -0500 Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:03:45 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Muli Ben-Yehuda Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux kernel mailing list , trivial@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Explain a second alternative for multi-line macros. Message-Id: <20061231120345.6baccd97.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20061231200903.GF3730@rhun.ibm.com> References: <20061231194501.GE3730@rhun.ibm.com> <20061231200903.GF3730@rhun.ibm.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 20 On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:09:03 +0200 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 02:49:48PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > there would appear to be *lots* of cases where the ({ }) notation is > > used when nothing is being returned. i'm not sure you can be that > > adamant about that distinction at this point. > > IMHO, the main point of CodingStyle is to clarify how new code should > be written and old code should've been written. I agree. We aren't trying to "fix" ancient history. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/