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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@intel.com>,
	Mike Shuey <shuey@purdue.edu>,
	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@intel.com>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"HPDD-discuss@lists.01.org" <HPDD-discuss@ml01.01.org>
Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH] staging: lustre: code cleanup - variable declaration spacing
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 15:32:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1505071732140.2462@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150507120908.GG14154@mwanda>

On Thu, 7 May 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 03:36:05AM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> > On 2015/05/06, 6:02 AM, "Mike Shuey" <shuey@purdue.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >Clean up spacing in some variable declarations, to be more consistent.
> > >
> > >It's small, but I need to start somewhere.  Please let me know if I'm not
> > >adhering to proper procedure for trivial cleanups.
> >
> > It's actually Lustre coding style to align the variable declarations.
> > Is this something that causes checkpatch.pl to complain?  If not, I'd
> > prefer not to change all of these declarations, since it causes a lot
> > of code churn for very little benefit.
>
> In theory it's nice, but in reality aligning variables doesn't work in
> .c files.  If you look at the patch, almost every declaration block uses
> higgledy piggledy alignment.

Probably the use of tabs and spaces is not consistent.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-06 12:02 [PATCH] staging: lustre: code cleanup - variable declaration spacing Mike Shuey
2015-05-06 12:48 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-05-06 13:52 ` Dan Carpenter
     [not found]   ` <CABqvwjsia7nqfZtAP4T_DSKRTjdaNZa=7RxXJuZeVxHK7Y2z_Q@mail.gmail.com>
2015-05-06 15:05     ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-07  3:36 ` [HPDD-discuss] " Dilger, Andreas
2015-05-07 12:09   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-05-07 15:32     ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2015-05-08  1:32     ` Drokin, Oleg

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