From: Jonathan Corbet > Sent: 12 August 2017 15:55 ... > > + Chapter 20: Put values on initialisers without exception > > + > > +When declaring variables on functions must put values: > > Thanks for sending a patch for the kernel's documentation. > Unfortunately, I can't accept this patch for a couple of reasons: ... > - The coding style document is there to describe the community's > standards for kernel code. It is *not* a mechanism for imposing new > standards. If you really think that the kernel community should adopt > this rule, you will need to argue for it on the mailing lists. I will > say, though, that I do not expect that this effort would be successful. I'd even go as far as suggesting almost the opposite. Declarations should only have initialisers if the value is constant. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
