During discussion of other patches these preferences have been revealed.
Lets add them to the guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 4557711..0a07990 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -76,11 +76,16 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
- We do not use Process Substitution <(list) or >(list).
+ - We prefer "then" on the next line for if statements.
+
- We prefer "test" over "[ ... ]".
- We do not write the noiseword "function" in front of shell
functions.
+ - We prefer a space between the function name and the parentheses.
+ E.g.: my_function ()
+
- As to use of grep, stick to a subset of BRE (namely, no \{m,n\},
[::], [==], nor [..]) for portability.
@@ -97,6 +102,7 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive):
interface translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in
po/README.
+
For C programs:
- We use tabs to indent, and interpret tabs as taking up to
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