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Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions

From Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions
Date 2016-01-05 17:30 +0100
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 11:06 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Trying to come up with hard-and-fast rules for this sort of thing is�
> > pretty hopeless.� Even "Maximize readability" doesn't work too well,�
> > because different people find different things most readable.
> 
> Readability is mostly habituation.

Indeed.

> Align to open parenthesis is relatively easy to implement,
> but it can get out of hand too with long naming.

That's why I dislike it.  Plus the fact that it results in
continuations of different lines being indented by different amounts.

Alan Stern

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[PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 21:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-04 22:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 00:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-05 16:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-01-05 16:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 16:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 16:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-05 17:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-01-05 17:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-01-05 17:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com> - 2016-01-05 18:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-01-05 16:30 +0100

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