24 Oct, 2016
2 commits
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Those files got moved to Documentation/process, but as they're very
well known files, add pointers to their new locations.PS.: I opted to not merge this patch with the previous one
in order to make the diff of the previous one more consistent,
as it will show only renames.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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Add several documents to the development-process ReST book.
As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those
documents on their original place.Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
22 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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Recent discussion has made it clear that there is no community consensus on
this particular rule. Remove it now, lest it inspire yet another set of
unwanted "cleanup" patches.This partially reverts 865a1caa4b6b (CodingStyle: Clarify and complete
chapter 7).Cc: Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
21 Sep, 2016
5 commits
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Add cross references for the documents mentioned at HOWTO and
are under the Documentation/ directory, using the ReST notation.It should be noticed that HOWTO also mentions the /README file.
We opted to not touch it, for now, as making it build on
Sphinx would require it to be moved to a Documentation/foo
directory.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
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There are two places there where there are notes that should
be highlighted. So, use the ReST note markup for such texts.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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Sphinx doesn't accept underline markups by purpose.
While there are ways to support underline via CSS, this won't
be portable with non-html outputs.As we want CodingStyle to do emphasis, replace _foo_ by **foo**,
using bold emphasis.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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On Sphinx/ReST notation, ``foo`` means that foo will be will be
marked as inline literal, effectively making it to be presented
as a monospaced font.As we want this document to be parsed by Sphinx, instead of using
"foo", use ``foo`` for the names that are literal, because it is an
usual typographic convention to use monospaced fonts for functions
and language commands on documents, and we're following such
convention on the other ReST books.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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- Fix all chapter identation;
- add c blocks where needed;Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
15 Aug, 2016
2 commits
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Because Linus may still be reading source code on greenbar paper
instead of color terminals with code syntax highlighting and
appropriate font decorations.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFyQYJerovMsSoSKS7PessZBr4vNp-3QUUwhqk4A4_jcbg@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
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Chapter 7 (Centralized exiting of functions) of the coding style
documentation is unclear at times, and lacks some information (such
as the possibility to indent labels with a single space.) Clarify and
complete it.Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Cc: Markus Elfring
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
21 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Now that the new Sphinx world order is taking over, the information in
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt is outmoded. I hate to remove it altogether,
since it's one of those files that people expect to find. But we can add a
warning and fix all the other pointers to it.Reminded-by: Daniel Vetter
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
26 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gardner
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
12 Jan, 2016
1 commit
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Simple typo: "it" for "is".
Signed-off-by: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
Cc: Trivial Patch Monkey
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
11 Jul, 2015
1 commit
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Remove 2 broken links for programming reference books in Appendix I. After
a lookup on an Internet archives web site, it seems that these links have
been broken for around 3 months. We can then assume that they will not be
back up and safely remove them from the documentation.Signed-off-by: Olivier C. Larocque
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
08 May, 2015
1 commit
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Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski
Cc: Andrew Morton
Fixes: f2027543b9 ('documentation: update CodingStyle on local variables naming in macros')
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
18 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese
translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of
identical patches to that file"* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status
Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue
Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix
doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat'
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place
Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD
docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections
doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink
Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry
README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format
README: Update version number reference
doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI
Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers.
Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers
Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB
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17 Apr, 2015
1 commit
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Describe proper naming convention for local variables in macros
resembling functions.Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski
Cc: Guenter Roeck
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Feb, 2015
2 commits
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Try to make coding style documentation look a bit more readable and
consistent with the following:- indent every code example in C to first tab-stop;
- surround every code example with empty lines, both top and bottom;
- remove empty lines where text looked way too spare;
- do not indent examples in elisp and kconfig;
- do not do any non-whitespace changes.Signed-off-by: Pavel Kretov
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Coding style description has a irregular mixture of tabs and spaces in two
places which is bad by any means and can possibly hurt somebody's sense
of beauty.Signed-off-by: Pavel Kretov
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
29 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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Suggest to developers who use emacs that they turn on the
instantaneous trailing-whitespace warning feature.Signed-off-by: Alison Chaiken
[jc: untabified to match its surroundings]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
02 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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I added a paragraph on choosing label names, and updated the example
code to use a better label name. I also cleaned up the example code to
more modern style by moving the allocation out of the initializer and
changing the NULL check.Perhaps the most common type of error handling bug in the kernel is "one
err bugs". CodingStyle already says that we should "avoid nesting" by
using error labels and one err style error handling tends to have
multiple indent levels, so this was already bad style. But I've added a
new paragraph explaining how to avoid one err bugs by using multiple
error labels which is, hopefully, more clear.Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
Acked-by: Julia Lawall
[jc: added GFP_KERNEL to kmalloc() call]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
04 Nov, 2014
1 commit
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Document several common practices and conventions regarding conditional
compilation, most notably the preference for ifdefs in headers rather
than .c files.Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
26 Aug, 2014
1 commit
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There was a minor typo in the CodingStyle document where the word 'section'
had been spelled as 'secton'.Signed-off-by: Raymond L. Rivera
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
05 Jun, 2014
1 commit
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The pr_debug() and related debug print macros all differ from the normal
pr_XXX() macros, in that the normal ones print unconditionally, while
the debug macros are compiled out unless DEBUG is defined or
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is set. This isn't obvious, and the only way to
find this out is either to review the actual printk.h code or to read
CodingStyle, and the message there doesn't highlight the fact.Change Documentation/CodingStyle to clearly indicate that pr_debug() and
related debug printing macros behave differently than all other pr_XXX()
macros, and attempt to clarify when and where the different debug
printing methods might be used.Add short comment to printk.h above the pr_XXX() macros indicating that
while these macros print unconditionally, pr_debug() does not.Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman
Cc: Joe Perches
Cc: Fabian Frederick
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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A surprising number of newbies interpret this section to mean that only
one return statement is allowed per function. Part of the problem is that
the "one return statement per function" rule is an actual style guideline
that people are used to from other projects.Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
Cc: Eduardo Valentin
Cc: Rob Landley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.CC: Rob Landley
CC: Jiri Kosina
CC: Masanari Iida
CC: Jason Wessel
CC: Richard L Maliszewski
CC: Gang Wei
CC: Shane Wang
CC: Harry Wei
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: Jason Wessel
06 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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The block comment style in net/ and drivers/net is non-standard.
Document it.Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Cc: "Allan, Bruce W"
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: David Miller
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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Add the new kmalloc_array() to the list of general-purpose memory
allocators in chapter 14.Signed-off-by: Xi Wang
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Mar, 2012
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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After commit 38829dc9d7b4 ("Documentation/CodingStyle: flesh out if-else
examples") highlight that if _only_one_ branch of a conditional
statement is a single statement, then braces are to be used on both
branches.Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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Patch reviewers now recommend not splitting long user-visible strings,
such as printk messages, even if they exceed 80 columns. This avoids
breaking grep. However, that recommendation did not actually appear
anywhere in Documentation/CodingStyle.See, for example, the thread at
http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c1312215262.11635.15.camel%40Joe%2dLaptop%3eSigned-off-by: Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Jul, 2011
1 commit
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The list of available general purpose memory allocators in
Documentation/CodingStyle chapter 14 is incomplete. This patch adds
the missing vzalloc() to the list.Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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There is a missing case for "Chapter 3: Placing Braces and Spaces". We
often know we should not use braces where a single statement. The first
case is:if (condition)
action();Another case is:
if (condition)
do_this();
else
do_that();However, I can not find a description of the second case.
Signed-off-by: Harry Wei
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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pr_info() and pr_debug() are in linux/printk.h, not linux/kernel.h.
Last updated is unnecessary, we have git for that.Signed-off-by: Roland Kammerer
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Harry Wei
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Martin Olsson
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
30 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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I don't think emacs understands tilde expansion, so use
"expand-file-name" to do that.Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
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With the previous Emacs tips example the kernel style was made available
for files in the kernel-tree only. This patch updates the tip to add a
separate cc-mode indent style ("linux-tabs-only"). This makes it easy to
switch between different indent styles and also makes the kernel style
easily available for any filetype mode (c++, awk, ...) that is managed
by the Emacs cc-mode.Signed-off-by: Teemu Likonen
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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Describe a setup that integrates better with Emacs' cc-mode and also fixes
up the alignment of continuation lines to really only use tabs.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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I would suggest this change to make CodingStyle properly reflect the style
used by the kernel, rather than the current wording which is wishful
thinking and misleading, and comes from the same school of thought that
gets off on prescriptive grammar, latin and comp.std.cSigned-off-by: Alan Cox
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Update CodingStyle to talk about "-DDEBUG" message conventions and the
new "-DVERBOSE_DEBUG" convention.Signed-off-by: David Brownell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
