Em Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:26:10PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig escreveu:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:10:58AM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > We have had some stabs at changing this, but no consensus was reached on
> > whether it was a "for" or a "function".  My memory is of there being
> > slightly more "without a space" tenders than the other and so it has not
> > been changed.  This thread also seems so far to have not really
> > generated a concensus.  So I would tend to leave things as they are.  
> > 
> > A third option might be to accept either on *for_each* constructs.
> > That might tend to lead to divergance.  Difficult.  However, also see my
> > later comments on "style guide".
> 
> Pretty much all core code uses list_for_each_entry( so new code should
> follow that example.

Agreed, CodingStyle is not about mindless consistency such as "for (" is
the right thing, so "list_for_each (" is consistent with it, it is about
codifying practice contributors got used to over the years.

- Arnaldo
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