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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Linn <John.Linn@xilinx.com>
Cc: michal.simek@petalogix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com,
	grant.likely@secretlab.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] tty/serial: add support for Xilinx PS UART
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:23:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110422172352.308455ce@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad920746-773d-475a-9c0e-dc5dd7a4b1e1@VA3EHSMHS026.ehs.local>

> I don't have a problem removing the empty lines, but is there some
> guideline on that
> which I'm ignoring and should know?

Not in general - mostly its people inventing style. There's a lot to be
said for consistency in spacing but quite frankly people worrying about it
could spend their time more usefully on fixing actual bugs and really
ugly code of which the kernel still has a plentiful supply.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-22 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20 19:03 [PATCH V2] tty/serial: add support for Xilinx PS UART John Linn
2011-04-22  9:11 ` Michal Simek
2011-04-22  9:20   ` Joe Perches
2011-04-22 13:40     ` John Linn
2011-04-22 13:36   ` John Linn
2011-04-22 16:23     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-04-22 15:12   ` John Linn
2011-04-22 15:22     ` Greg KH
2011-04-22 15:25       ` John Linn
2011-04-22 15:40 ` Grant Likely
2011-04-22 15:46   ` Grant Likely
2011-04-22 15:55     ` John Linn
2011-04-22 15:47   ` John Linn

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