[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] HACKING: remove bogus restrictions

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

We copied HACKING from libvirt but it has some bogus stuff:
neither underscore capital, double underscore, or underscore 't' suffixes
are reserved in Posix/C: this appears to be based on misreading of the
C standard. Using sane prefixes is enough to avoid conflicts.

These rules are also widely violated in our codebase,
and it does not make sense to rework it all, apparently for
no benefit.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
---
 HACKING | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 471cf1d..0a941fc 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ it points to, or it is aliased to another pointer that is.
 2.3. Typedefs
 Typedefs are used to eliminate the redundant 'struct' keyword.
 
-2.4. Reserved namespaces in C and POSIX
-Underscore capital, double underscore, and underscore 't' suffixes should be
-avoided.
-
 3. Low level memory management
 
 Use of the malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign
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