Re: Moratorium on coding style patches (was Re: [PATCH] include/linux/kernel.h: fixed coding style issues)

Måns Rullgård
2016-12-15T11:55:01Z

Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 18:13 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I call for a tree wide moratorium on pure coding style changes.
> []
>> I'd relax this slightly and say don't do style
>> patches unless as a prelude to some real work.
>
> And exclude drivers/staging

I wouldn't mind seeing staging deleted. What makes those drivers so
special that they deserve to be included in the main tree without
meeting even the most basic of standards normally required?

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Måns Rullgård