(Matt, you've got an unusual reply-to header) On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 15:38 -0400, Matt Ullman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:38:13AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > I didn't see and could not find any reply to v1. Who is that comment > > addressed to? Linus? > Yes, this was addressed to Linus. He CC'd the mailing list, but I could not > find it either. Here is what he wrote: > > > > Please only change the prototype, not the function. Might as well remove > > the argument names in the prototype. > > > > Let's not make the C code uglier for no reason. The fact that C++ screwed > > up and thought that "new" can't be used as a variable name is no reason not > > to do it in C code. > > > > Similarly, we don't make C code use the insane C++ pointer caring rules. > > > > Linus > -- Matt Ullman
I think kernel-doc is useful and maybe from/to or find/replace could be used instead of old/new
