| 1 | LTTng-Tools Coding Style |
| 2 | |
| 3 | Last Update: 23/07/2012 |
| 4 | |
| 5 | C Style: |
| 6 | ------------- |
| 7 | |
| 8 | The coding style used for this project follows the the Linux kernel guide |
| 9 | lines, except that brackets "{", "}" should typically be used even for |
| 10 | single-line if/else statements. Please refer to: |
| 11 | |
| 12 | - doc/kernel-CodingStyle.txt (copied from Linux 3.4.4 git tree). |
| 13 | |
| 14 | - Linux kernel scripts/checkpatch.pl for a script which verify the patch |
| 15 | coding style. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Commenting: |
| 18 | ------------- |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Every function MUST have a comment above it even if the function is trivial. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Please add non-trivial comments/documentation as much you can in the code. Poor |
| 23 | comments WILL be rejected upon merging so please pay attention to this details |
| 24 | because we do! |