From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754076AbYADSsV (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:48:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752666AbYADSsN (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:48:13 -0500 Received: from DSL022.labridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:3525 "EHLO perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752120AbYADSsM (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:48:12 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH x86] [5/16] Replace hard coded reservations in x86-64 early boot code with dynamic table II From: Joe Perches To: Andi Kleen Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Ingo Molnar , peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20080104180650.GA2998@bingen.suse.de> References: <20080103442.621670000@suse.de> <200801041338.08093.ak@suse.de> <20080104144140.GA4203@elte.hu> <200801041603.58358.ak@suse.de> <20080104175128.GB31382@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080104180650.GA2998@bingen.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:47:33 -0800 Message-Id: <1199472453.4888.19.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0-2mdv2008.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 19:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > But the problem with your "rule" is that every of the hundreds > of Linux kernel contributors will need to do the same. And that's just > ineffecient, waste of valuable human work and just doesn't make much sense. > > It certainly won't improve Linux in any way. What I would prefer is a git option that supports check-in/outs in a coding style of a user choice. Commits should be white space ignorant.