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> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:20:38AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Jacek Luczak wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I've found that in many enum lists, there's a comma at the end, e.g. 
>>> (arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c):
>>>
>>> enum {
>>>        MAGIC1 = 0xBACCD00A,
>>>        MAGIC2 = 0xCA110000,
>>>        XOPEN = 5,
>>>        XWRITE = 4,
>>> };
>>>
>>> Just out of curiosity, is there any particular reason here (no word in 
>>> CodingStyle about that).
>>>
>> Yes, it's so you can add a line without affecting the line before it, 
>> making a one-line patch into a two-line patch that's more likely to 
>> conflict.
> 
> Note that doing that makes sense only when you can expect additions to
> the end and even then it's a matter of taste.
> 

I think it's hard to ,,expect additions'' or just predict them. But 
smaller patch (diff) is one of things that makes sens of adding extra 
commas. I'm just pedantic here.

-Jacek
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