Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS - definitive version

Andrew Morton
2007-07-23T19:29:44Z

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:35:16 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> Please feed it to scripts/checkpatch.pl -- you can ignore all the
> warnings about lines greater than 80 characters, and the complete crap
> about "declaring multiple variables together should be avoided", but
> some of what it points out is valid.

The above are David's opinions. Many, probably most kernel developers do not
agree with them.

And there are good reasons for ignoring David's opinions here. To
understand those reasons, try looking at some MTD code.