kernel style preference trivia: '* const' vs '*const' ?

[Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The kernel uses '* const' about 10:1 over '*const'

coding_style and checkpatch don't care one way or another.

Does anyone care if there should be some kernel style preference?

$ git grep -P -oh '\b(?:char|u8)\s*\*\s*const\b' -- '*.[ch]' | \
  sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
  12450 char * const
   1357 char *const
     41 u8 * const
     17 char* const
      9 u8 *const
      5 char		*const
      2 char      * const
      2 char			*const
      1 char  * const
      1 char	*const
      1 char		* const