[PATCH 8/9] CodingStyle: tell people how to split long "for" loops

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index e17de69845ff..494ab3201112 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -183,7 +183,21 @@ Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and
 are placed substantially to the right.  A very commonly used style
 is to align descendants to a function open parenthesis.
 
-These same rules are applied to function headers with a long argument list.
+These same rules are applied to function prototypes with a long argument list.
+
+Very long ``for`` loops are split at the ``;`` characters making it easier
+to see which code goes to which clause:
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+	for (int i = 0;
+	     i < N;
+	     i += 1)
+	{
+	}
+
+Opening curly is placed on a separate line then to make it easier to tell
+loop body from iteration clause.
 
 However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages because
 that breaks the ability to grep for them.
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