On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 11:16 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:52:35PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > All those local variables should be sorted in a reverse christmas tree
> > > order:
> > > 
> > >   u32 this_is_the_longest_array_name[LENGTH];
> > >   void *shorter_named_variable;
> > >   unsigned long size;
> > >   int i;
> > > 
> > >   ...
> > 
> > Why? There's nothing at the CodingStyle saying about how the vars should
> > be ordered. If you want to enforce some particular order, please do it
> > yourself, but apply it consistently among the entire subsystem.
> 
> First of all, this way it is more readable.

Not in my opinion, and blindly using "reverse christmas tree"
can separate variables that should be declared together.


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