On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:29:49PM +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote: > I was about to disagree because I've never seen variables named a, b > or c, but I found that there are at least 2238 variables named a, b or > c in linux-next. This is not good. > In XGIfb_mode_rate_to_ddata() we have: int B, C, D, F, temp, j; The A and E variables were removed when the code was refactored. ;P Places like this are fairly rare in the kernel outside of the staging/ directory. There are lots of times where a single letter variable name is very natural. char c; C is terse. This is explained in Documentation/CodingStyle. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html