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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] libxl: CODING_STYLE: Discuss existing
	style problems
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:30:19 +0000
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On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 14:43 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> +If it is not feasible to conform fully to the style while patching old
> +code, without doing substantial style reengineering first, we may
> +accept patches which contain nonconformant elements, provided that
> +they don't make the coding style problem worse overall.

I'd perhaps be a little more explicit and say that the exceptional code
should conform to the (probably implicit) prevailing style in the area
so far as that is possible.

Ian.