From: Oleg Verych <olecom <at> flower.upol.cz>
Subject: style of function definitions (Re: [patch] bkl2mtd: cleanup)
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2008-03-30 04:29:52 GMT (1 year, 45 weeks, 1 day, 15 hours and 25 minutes ago)

Ingo Molnar @ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:10:21 +0100
>
> * Al Viro <viro <at> ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
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>> > -static int block2mtd_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len,
>> > +static int
>> > +block2mtd_write(struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t to, size_t len,
>> >  		size_t *retlen, const u_char *buf)
>> 
>> Again, why split it that way?
>
> these are really nuances, so unless you are interested in such nuances 
> nowhere found in CodingStyle, stop reading here 

Nuances, or not, there are all kinds of stuff in Linux. Very small
journey from simple `grep` and trivial multi-line `sed` to a huge
discovery can be found here:

http://kernelnewbies.org/olecom#Function_definitions

No matter what coding style is, the winner is "linux-2.6/fs/xfs", and
i doubt anyone can fix that :)

Maybe meta-patching by `sed` scripts in `git`? Just kidding.
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