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Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote some additional tips in his article:
 
Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote some additional tips in his article:
 
[http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5780 Proper Linux Kernel Coding Style]
 
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Michael S. Tsirkin made years ago a ''kernel guide to space'' aka [http://web.archive.org/web/20060703085439/http://www.mellanox.com/mst/boring.txt a boring list of rules] which can be used to start a non-rhetoric article about Coding Style.
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=== use of #ifdefs ===
 
=== use of #ifdefs ===

Revision as of 03:52, 20 August 2008

Here are some miscellaneous tips for good code styling:

Proper Linux Kernel Coding Style

See the kernel coding style guide in any kernel source tree at: Documentation/CodingStyle (Online here)

Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote some additional tips in his article: Proper Linux Kernel Coding Style

Michael S. Tsirkin made years ago a kernel guide to space aka a boring list of rules which can be used to start a non-rhetoric article about Coding Style.


use of #ifdefs

Rob Landley writes:

Read: http://www.chris-lott.org/resources/cstyle/ifdefs.pdf

Personally, I tend to have symbols #defined to a constant 0 or 1 depending on whether or not a function is enabled, and then just use if(SYMBOL) as a guard and let the compiler's dead code eliminator take it out for me at compile time (because if(0) {blah;} shouldn't put any code in the resulting .o file with any optimizer worth its salt. Borland C for DOS managed simple dead code elimination 20 years ago...)