Coding Style: Reverse XMAS tree declarations ? (was Re: [PATCH net-next v6 02/10] dpaa_eth: add support for DPAA Ethernet)

[Michael Ellerman]

Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 15:58 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
>> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 22:17:26 +0200
>> 
>> > This introduces the Freescale Data Path Acceleration Architecture
>> > +static inline size_t bpool_buffer_raw_size(u8 index, u8 cnt)
>> > +{
>> > +     u8 i;
>> > +     size_t res = DPAA_BP_RAW_SIZE / 2;
>> 
>> Always order local variable declarations from longest to shortest line,
>> also know as Reverse Christmas Tree Format.
>
> I think this declaration sorting order is misguided but
> here's a possible change to checkpatch adding a test for it
> that does this test just for net/ and drivers/net/

And arch/powerpc too please.

cheers