[PATCH 9/9] staging: comedi: das08: Add attach_pci() hook

[Ian Abbott]

On 2012-05-23 21:22, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 05:50:28PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> +
>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMEDI_DAS08_PCI)
>> +static const struct das08_board_struct
>> +*das08_find_pci_board(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>
> Normally the * would go on the first line.
>
> static const struct das08_board_struct *
> das08_find_pci_board(struct pci_dev *pdev)
>
> That way before cscope was around you can grep for functions by
> doing:  egrep -B1 '^[a-z]+\(' *.c
>
> There are 30 some places in the kernel which put the * on the second
> line but they are mostly in ugly subsystems.

CodingStyle section 3.1 suggests it should be adjacent to the function name.

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