This is a short document describing the preferred coding style for the Linux kernel. Coding style is very personal, and I won’t _force_ my views on anybody, but this is what goes for anything that I have to be able to maintain, and I’d prefer it for most other things too. Please at least consider the points made here.
This document is a result of a committee formed at Indian Hill to establish a common set of coding standards and recommendations for the Indian Hill community. The scope of this work is the coding style, not the functional organization of programs. The standards in this document are not specific to ESS programming only.
Reference standards Don’t in any circumstances refer to Unix source code for or during your work on GNU! (Or to
