Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: Don't WARN about missing spaces in audio files

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 02/11/2012 03:44 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 17:47, Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>  wrote:
>> On 02/09/2012 10:02 PM, malc wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Evgeny Voevodin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 02/09/2012 06:59 PM, Andreas F?rber wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Disable warnings for spaces before opening parenthesis in
>>>>> hw/{ac97,adlib,cs4231a,es1370,gus,sb16}.c.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why audio files are such a special thing?
>>>
>>>
>>> Because they are consistently formatted the way they are.
>>
>>
>> I personally hate the QEMU Coding Style I dislike inconsistency more than
>> any particular style.
>
> I dislike unclear rules more than inconsistency or coding styles.
>
>> So I'm with malc here.  I'd be opposed to introducing a new file that
>> deviated from Coding Style but for the ones that already do, I see no reason
>> to convert them all at once or make the code deviate from the style it's
>> already using.
>
> I'd make a rule, specify the level of importance and try to stick to
> it. I would not oppose global reformatting to GNU style even (which I
> hate) if that would be the rule.

I really hate having these discussions.  I would almost rather we just pay the 
one-time cost of re-indenting so we can stop debating about this.

For folks that feel strongly about this, please submit the following:

An indent command that takes the tree to CODING_STYLE along with a diffstat of 
the end result.

Depending on how bad the diffstat is, we can consider doing this and ending this 
set of arguments once and for all.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I don't like laissez faire, but if
> that is the rule then fine.
>
>>
>>>
>>>> Isn't it be better to revert a patch that introduced checkpatch.pl
>>>> errors?
>>>
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>
>>
>>>
>>
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