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From: "Angelo Dell'Aera" <buffer@sniffo.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: bunk@fs.tum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fix a drivers/char/isicom.c compile warning
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:45:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040113124549.229429b3.buffer@sniffo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040113003828.GO18853@conectiva.com.br>

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On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:38:28 -0200
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

>> I thought about it, but I wasn't sure whether changing a driver to be 
>> more readable in _one_ place and making the code there different from 
>> the coding style used in the rest of the driver is really an 
>> improvement (and no, I don't want to clean the whole driver...)?
>
>Humm, IMHO it is better to get it with mixed style as long as the changes that
>"break" the style are for the correct style, but this, of course, for purely
>unmaintained stuff, like... isicom.c :-) For maintained stuff it becomes a
>pain in the ass for the maintainer, that should try to follow CodingStyle, but
>as we know, not always do.

I started cleaning isicom.c in such a way as to be more "CodingStyle 
compliant" but it's a hard pain... the fix from Adrian is still in.
Hope to release it in a reasonable time.

Regards. 

- --

Angelo Dell'Aera 'buffer' 
Antifork Research, Inc.	  	http://buffer.antifork.org

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-13 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-13  0:00 [2.6 patch] fix a drivers/char/isicom.c compile warning Adrian Bunk
2004-01-13  0:17 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-01-13  0:23   ` Adrian Bunk
2004-01-13  0:38     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-01-13 11:45       ` Angelo Dell'Aera [this message]

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