Don't use the integer type before signed/unsigned, but the
other way around. That is,
unsigned long var;
instead of
long unsigned var;
Also, just use "unsigned" instead of "unsigned int".
Tabs are not only wrong after a space, they are always
wrong if they don't appear at the beginning of a line.
That would happen usually, when trying to align multiple
lines like
enum {
VALUE1 = 1;
OTHER_VALUE = 2;
};
When doing that, the alignment will only be correct, if the
reader later uses the same tab-width. Note that in NetworkManager
we recommend the tab-width to be 4 characters, but with our "smart
tab" indentation style, it wouldn't actually matter and the reader
is free to choose any other tab-width -- as long as we don't use
non-leading tabs.
Don't allow non-leading tabs.
We should not use glib typedefs for basic C types char, short, int,
long, float or double. We commonly do not use them, so enforce
consistency.
That is not true for typedefs like guint, which we commonly use
because it's shorter typing than "unsigned int" (or "int unsigned"
or "unsigned"). Whether or not to use guint is left undecided at this
point.
A naive code compliance checker. Invoke directly:
contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-switch-comments-to-klingon.patch
contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl hello.[ch] world.c
Use from a commit hook:
echo 'git format-patch --stdout -1 |contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl || :>' \
>.git/hooks/post-commit
Or view the documentation with "perldoc contrib/scripts/checkpatch.pl"
