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[2003:dc:6f49:a600:529a:4cff:fe3d:d983]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z8-20020a05600c220800b003fee8793911sm14034296wml.44.2023.10.10.05.58.34 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:58:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Max Kellermann To: linux@roeck-us.net, joe@perches.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, Jonathan Corbet Cc: Max Kellermann , workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3] Documentation/process/coding-style.rst: space around const Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:58:31 +0200 Message-Id: <20231010125832.1002941-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" There are currently no rules on the placement of "const", but a recent code submission revealed that there is clearly a preference for spaces around it. checkpatch.pl has no check at all for this; though it does sometimes complain, but only because it erroneously thinks that the "*" (on local variables) is an unary dereference operator, not a pointer type. Current coding style for const pointers-to-pointers: "*const*": 2 occurrences "* const*": 3 "*const *": 182 "* const *": 681 Just const pointers: "*const": 2833 occurrences "* const": 16615 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/264fa39d-aed6-4a54-a085-107997078f8d@roeck-= us.net/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f511170fe61d7e7214a3a062661cf4103980dad6.ca= mel@perches.com/ Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck --- V1 -> V2: removed "volatile" on gregkh's request. V2 -> V3: moved patch changelog below the "---" line --- Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process= /coding-style.rst index 6db37a46d305..71d62d81e506 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst @@ -271,6 +271,17 @@ adjacent to the type name. Examples: unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr); char *match_strdup(substring_t *s); =20 +Use space around the ``const`` keyword (except when adjacent to +parentheses). Example: + +.. code-block:: c + + const void *a; + void * const b; + void ** const c; + void * const * const d; + int strcmp(const char *a, const char *b); + Use one space around (on each side of) most binary and ternary operators, such as any of these:: =20 --=20 2.39.2