Re: [PATCH] teach checkpatch.pl about list_for_each

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:10:58AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have had some stabs at changing this, but no consensus was reached on
> whether it was a "for" or a "function".  My memory is of there being
> slightly more "without a space" tenders than the other and so it has not
> been changed.  This thread also seems so far to have not really
> generated a concensus.  So I would tend to leave things as they are.  
> 
> A third option might be to accept either on *for_each* constructs.
> That might tend to lead to divergance.  Difficult.  However, also see my
> later comments on "style guide".

Pretty much all core code uses list_for_each_entry( so new code should
follow that example.

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