linux/Documentation
Dan Carpenter b57a0505e7 Documentation/CodingStyle: allow multiple return statements per function
A surprising number of newbies interpret this section to mean that only
one return statement is allowed per function.  Part of the problem is that
the "one return statement per function" rule is an actual style guideline
that people are used to from other projects.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@ti.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:08:01 -07:00
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ABI Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-07-02 16:15:23 -07:00
accounting doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c 2012-11-26 14:22:21 +01:00
acpi ACPI/APEI: Update einj documentation for param1/param2 2013-06-06 15:28:11 -07:00
aoe aoe: allow user to disable target failure timeout 2012-12-17 17:15:25 -08:00
arm ARM SoC late changes 2013-07-02 14:42:51 -07:00
arm64 arm64: KVM: document kernel object mappings in HYP 2013-06-12 16:42:20 +01:00
auxdisplay
backlight backlight: lp855x: remove duplicate platform data 2013-04-29 18:28:19 -07:00
blackfin
block Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables 2013-04-09 14:57:06 +02:00
blockdev nbd: update documentation and link to mailinglist 2013-02-27 19:10:22 -08:00
bus-devices ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc: generic timing calculation 2012-11-09 18:07:11 +05:30
cdrom
cgroups memcg: update TODO list in Documentation 2013-07-03 16:07:31 -07:00
connector connector: Move cn_test.c away from NLMSG_PUT(). 2012-06-26 21:19:02 -07:00
console TTY:console: update document console.txt 2013-05-21 10:21:57 -07:00
cpu-freq Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-05 13:23:27 -07:00
cpuidle cpuidle: make a single register function for all 2013-04-23 13:45:22 +02:00
cris
crypto drivers/dma: remove unused support for MEMSET operations 2013-07-03 16:07:42 -07:00
development-process
device-mapper DM RAID: Add message/status support for changing sync action 2013-04-24 11:42:43 +10:00
devicetree Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-07-03 09:46:29 -07:00
DocBook Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-07-02 16:14:35 -07:00
driver-model lib: devres: Introduce devm_ioremap_resource() 2013-01-22 09:41:43 -08:00
dvb [media] get_dvb_firmware: Fix the location of firmware for Terratec HTC 2013-01-01 11:18:26 -02:00
early-userspace
EDID drm: Add 1600x1200 (UXGA) screen resolution to the built-in EDIDs 2013-04-12 14:06:16 +10:00
extcon
fault-injection doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation 2012-11-19 14:28:24 +01:00
fb
filesystems documentation: document the is_dirty_writeback aops callback 2013-07-03 16:07:40 -07:00
firmware_class firmware loader: document firmware cache mechanism 2012-11-14 15:07:18 -08:00
fmc FMC: add a char-device mezzanine driver 2013-06-18 15:42:15 -07:00
frv
hid HID: remove x bit from sensor doc 2012-12-14 08:48:59 +01:00
hwmon Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
i2c i2c: Fix my e-mail address in drivers and documentation 2013-03-22 11:18:34 +01:00
i2o
ia64 Fix example error_injection_tool 2013-04-02 09:39:55 -07:00
ide
infiniband IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link_ops support 2012-09-20 16:49:17 -04:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2013-03-11 07:49:37 -07:00
ioctl USB: cdc-wdm: implement IOCTL_WDM_MAX_COMMAND 2013-03-25 13:32:20 -07:00
isdn
ja_JP
kbuild Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
kdump Add size restriction to the kdump documentation 2013-04-02 09:40:03 -07:00
ko_KR
laptops Documentation/laptops: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2013-01-21 14:52:42 -08:00
leds leds: lp55xx: configure the clock detection 2013-04-01 11:04:53 -07:00
m68k block: remove refs to XD disks from documentation 2013-05-17 15:17:12 +02:00
make
memory-devices
metag metag: Basic documentation 2013-03-02 20:09:50 +00:00
mips
misc-devices mei: bus: Add device enabling and disabling API 2013-04-08 16:57:15 -07:00
mmc mmc: core: Add in support to expose PRV for v4 MMCs 2013-03-22 12:10:42 -04:00
mn10300
mtd
namespaces userns: Recommend use of memory control groups. 2013-01-26 22:20:06 -08:00
netlabel
networking tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value 2013-06-24 00:26:26 -07:00
nfc NFC: Update pn544 documentation 2013-01-10 01:27:46 +01:00
parisc
PCI PCI/MSI: Enable multiple MSIs with pci_enable_msi_block_auto() 2013-01-24 17:25:13 +01:00
pcmcia
power PM / hibernate: Correct documentation 2013-05-14 01:58:43 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/tm: Fix userspace stack corruption on signal delivery for active transactions 2013-06-01 08:29:23 +10:00
pps
prctl seccomp: Make syscall skipping and nr changes more consistent 2012-10-02 21:14:29 +10:00
pti
ptp
rapidio rapidio: documentation update for enumeration changes 2013-05-24 16:22:50 -07:00
RCU Merge branches 'cbnum.2013.06.10a', 'doc.2013.06.10a', 'fixes.2013.06.10a', 'srcu.2013.06.10a' and 'tiny.2013.06.10a' into HEAD 2013-06-10 13:46:44 -07:00
s390 s390/cio: add condev keyword to cio_ignore 2013-05-02 15:50:20 +02:00
scheduler sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
scsi [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update copyright dates information in LICENSE.qla2xxx file. 2013-04-06 11:31:30 +01:00
security Smack: add support for modification of existing rules 2013-03-19 14:16:42 -07:00
serial stallion: final cleanup 2013-06-03 14:31:39 -07:00
sh
sound ALSA: hda - Add models for Dell headset jacks 2013-06-17 11:15:56 +02:00
spi Documentation: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
sysctl perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow 2013-06-23 11:52:57 +02:00
target target: Simplify fabric sense data length handling 2012-09-17 17:12:58 -07:00
thermal Thermal: update documentation for thermal_zone_device_register 2013-04-27 09:16:04 +08:00
timers nohz_full: Document additional restrictions 2013-06-10 13:42:38 -07:00
trace x86: Add NMI duration tracepoints 2013-06-23 11:52:58 +02:00
usb Driver core patches for 3.11-rc1 2013-07-02 11:44:19 -07:00
vDSO
video4linux [media] v4l2: Add a V4L2 driver for SI476X MFD 2013-04-18 21:20:34 -03:00
virtual Main features: 2013-07-03 10:31:38 -07:00
vm pagemap: prepare to reuse constant bits with page-shift 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
w1 w1: add family based automatic module loading 2013-06-03 14:09:14 -07:00
watchdog watchdog: core: dt: add support for the timeout-sec dt property 2013-03-01 12:48:36 +01:00
wimax
x86 x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMD 2013-05-30 20:19:25 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: document MMUv3 setup sequence 2013-05-09 01:07:09 -07:00
zh_CN gpio: update gpio Chinese documentation 2013-04-16 18:47:22 +09:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX FMC: add documentation for the core 2013-06-18 15:41:03 -07:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt Documentation: Memory barrier semantics of atomic_xchg() 2013-01-08 14:14:55 -08:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
bcache.txt bcache: clarify free/available/unused space 2013-05-15 00:42:52 -07:00
binfmt_misc.txt
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
Changes
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt clk: add clk_ignore_unused option to keep boot clocks on 2013-04-27 23:03:43 -07:00
coccinelle.txt Coccinelle: Add support to the SPFLAGS variable 2013-04-08 15:42:03 +02:00
CodingStyle Documentation/CodingStyle: allow multiple return statements per function 2013-07-03 16:08:01 -07:00
cpu-hotplug.txt Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt block: remove refs to XD disks from documentation 2013-05-17 15:17:12 +02:00
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: fix typo 2013-02-27 19:10:23 -08:00
DMA-API.txt dma-debug: New interfaces to debug dma mapping errors 2012-10-24 17:06:43 +02:00
DMA-attributes.txt common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS attribute 2012-11-29 03:30:34 -08:00
dma-buf-sharing.txt dma-buf: replace dma_buf_export() with dma_buf_export_named() 2013-05-01 16:35:36 +05:30
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dmaengine.txt
dmatest.txt dmatest: do not allow to interrupt ongoing tests 2013-06-08 02:13:44 +05:30
dontdiff x86: remove offsets.h from .gitignore and dontdiff 2012-11-19 14:10:53 +01:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt dynamic_debug: dynamic hex dump 2013-01-17 12:19:09 -08:00
edac.txt Merge branch 'devel' 2012-07-29 21:11:05 -03:00
eisa.txt MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. 2012-05-17 19:06:13 -04:00
email-clients.txt
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gpio.txt Remove GENERIC_GPIO config option 2013-04-16 18:47:19 +09:00
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: Updated broken link in HOWTO 2013-06-03 14:22:57 -07:00
hw_random.txt hwrng: Fix a wrong comment in Documentation/hw_random.txt 2013-03-10 18:16:36 +08:00
hwspinlock.txt
init.txt
initrd.txt Documentation/initrd.txt: Change the location of util-linux 2012-05-25 16:18:34 +02:00
intel_txt.txt Documentation: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2013-01-11 11:38:03 -08:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt iostats.txt: add easy-to-find description for field 6 2013-04-29 15:18:50 +02:00
IPMI.txt ipmi: add options to disable openfirmware and PCI scanning 2013-02-27 19:10:21 -08:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: update documentation 2012-12-05 23:52:10 +00:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values 2012-11-27 21:08:57 +01:00
kernel-docs.txt
kernel-parameters.txt Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2013-07-02 19:53:30 -07:00
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt kthread: Add kworker kthreads to OS-jitter documentation 2013-06-10 13:42:38 -07:00
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt
kobject.txt Documentation: Fix "struct kobj_type" to include newer members. 2012-09-04 16:06:34 -07:00
kprobes.txt
kref.txt kref: Add kref_get_unless_zero documentation 2012-11-28 18:36:06 +10:00
ldm.txt
local_ops.txt
lockdep-design.txt
lockstat.txt locking/stat: Fix a typo 2013-02-19 08:42:37 +01:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
magic-number.txt wanrouter: completely decouple obsolete code from kernel. 2013-01-31 19:20:33 -05:00
Makefile
ManagementStyle Documentation: ManagementStyle: fixed typo 2012-06-28 12:03:15 +02:00
md.txt MD: Fix typos in MD documentation 2013-04-24 11:42:42 +10:00
media-framework.txt [media] Documentation/media-framework.txt: fix a sentence 2013-02-08 13:27:13 -02:00
memory-barriers.txt Documentation: Memory barrier semantics of atomic_xchg() 2013-01-08 14:14:55 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt hotplug: update nodemasks management 2012-12-12 17:38:33 -08:00
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos 2012-09-26 19:56:15 +02:00
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt pinctrl: document the "GPIO mode" pitfall 2013-03-18 11:03:29 +01:00
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-04-30 13:47:37 -07:00
pwm.txt pwm: add devm_pwm_get() and devm_pwm_put() 2012-09-10 17:05:45 +02:00
ramoops.txt pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob 2012-09-06 22:16:58 -07:00
rbtree.txt rbtree: move augmented rbtree functionality to rbtree_augmented.h 2012-10-09 16:22:40 +09:00
remoteproc.txt remoteproc: add rproc_report_crash function to notify rproc crashes 2012-09-18 12:53:22 +03:00
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt Documentation: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
rt-mutex-design.txt sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt rtc: add ability to push out an existing wakealarm using sysfs 2013-07-03 16:07:54 -07:00
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt mfd: smsc: Add support for smsc gpio io/keypad driver 2012-10-01 15:27:48 +02:00
sparse.txt Documentation/sparse.txt: document context annotations for lock checking 2012-12-17 17:15:23 -08:00
spinlocks.txt sched: Rename sched.c as sched/core.c in comments and Documentation 2013-06-19 12:58:42 +02:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues 2012-06-25 12:11:58 -07:00
static-keys.txt
SubmitChecklist Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers
SubmittingPatches checkpatch: add Suggested-by as a standard signature 2013-04-29 18:28:20 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt
sysrq.txt Documentation/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key 2013-04-30 17:04:10 -07:00
this_cpu_ops.txt percpu: add documentation on this_cpu operations 2013-04-04 10:24:53 -07:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vfio.txt vfio: Trivial Documentation correction 2012-09-21 10:48:03 -06:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt workqueue: reimplement WQ_HIGHPRI using a separate worker_pool 2012-07-13 22:24:45 -07:00
ww-mutex-design.txt mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks 2013-06-26 12:10:56 +02:00
xz.txt
zorro.txt