Coding Style

We follow the Linux kernel coding style.

As a general rule :-

all indentation is tabs (set to 8 char) with the exception of continuation lines that are aligned with tabs and then spaces
all keywords followed by a '(' have a space in between

	if (condition)

	for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)

function calls do NOT have a space between their name and argument

	i = some_function(argument);

usually there is no space on the inside of parenthesis (see examples above)
function / method implementations have their opening curly braces in column 1
all other opening curly braces follow at the end of the line, with a space separating them:

	if (condition) {
		dosomething();
		dosomethingelse();
	}

both sides of an if / else clause either use or do not use curly braces:

	if (condition)
		i = 4;
	else
		j = 6;

	if (condition) {
		i = 6;
	} else {
		i = 4;
		j = 6;
	}

don't do assignments inside if () statements, always do it this way

	res = something();
	if (!res)
		return NULL;

if you don't need the result you can do

	if (!something())
		return NULL;

use space to make visual separation easier

	a = b + 3 + e / 4;

continuation lines have the operator / comma at the end

       if (very_long_conditiont_1 ||
           condition_2)

        b = a + (c + d +
                 f + z);

switch statements with blocks are a little bit special (to avoid indenting too far)

	switch (foo) {
	case FIRST:
		whatever();
		break;
	case SECOND: {
		int i;
		for (i = 0; i < 5; i++)
			do_something(i);
	}
	}

comments should be C style not C++/C99

for single line comments

	/* This is a single line comment */

for multi-line comments

	/*
	 * This is a multi
	 * line comment
	 */

variable declarations should be at the beginning of a code block, not interspersed in the middle
variable and function naming should be all lower case with _ used for spaces