Russell King wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:59:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
"I want to grep for
initialisations" is pretty pointless because a) it won't catch everything
anyway and b) most structures are allocated and initialised at a single
place and many of those which aren't should probably be converted to do
that anyway.
The broader point is that you're trying to optimise for the wrong thing.
We should optimise for those who read code, not for those who write it.
If you look back, your five reasons tend to address modifiability, not
readability.
So what you're saying is that we should optimise the code so that
we make mistakes when we modify it. Umm, yes, of course.
This is a contentious issue, and I don't think anyone should be
stipulating which way is the right way - which is exactly what
has been done by placing it in Coding Style. Remember, we have
kernel janitors who _will_ change code to match that.
Precisely. Since there is enough disagreement, it lacks consensus to be
in CodingStyle.
Jeff
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