Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Find CamelCase definitions of struct/union/enum

From: Alexander Holler
Date: Wed Sep 25 2013 - 13:32:27 EST


Am 25.09.2013 18:19, schrieb Al Viro:
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:35:44AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:

We disagree.

Obviously.

I think Propercase should be discouraged.
ie: Qdisc et al.

Excuse me, but "Joe happens to think that something should be discouraged"
is not a problem. "Joe uses checkpatch.pl as force multiplier, recruiting
hundreds of monkeys to enforce his personal preferences", OTOH, very much is.

You are calling for ban on any mixed-case identifiers. I see at least three
cases where they can be legitimate:
* labels a-la Enomem, etc. I've been using those and I will
keep doing so, checkpatch.pl and its users be damned.
* enum members, to distinguish those from defines (first letter
capitalized vs. all-caps).
* (local) typedefs for structs; I really don't like their use for
anything non-local, but IMO they have their uses in cases like e.g.
fs/binfmt_misc.c

Besides that CamelCase is one character less long than camel_case.

I'm awaiting kernel developer uniforms. There are too many different black t-shirts around. ;)

Regards,

Alexander Holler

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