From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible false positive in checkpatch
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:01:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wsim3yft.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080812171800.GA29207@brain> (Andy Whitcroft's message of "Tue\, 12 Aug 2008 18\:18\:00 +0100")
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> The recommendations it makes match the style of the whole, which new
> contributions should follow.
But there isn't any "style of the whole". Existing styles differ.
While I guess there is some agreement about the base (tab width,
mostly K&R, don't do "char* ptr" etc.), the rest are simply views of
single persons.
This is IMHO fine as long as it's useful for the community, but not
past this point.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-12 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-12 14:25 Possible false positive in checkpatch Alan Stern
2008-08-12 15:29 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-08-12 17:18 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-08-12 18:01 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2008-08-15 21:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-16 15:26 ` Alan Stern
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