Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates

Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-29T21:57:54Z

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:
> >
> > Documentation/CodingStyle | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>
> I'm not very happy with this.
>
> "CodingStyle" should be about the big issues, not about details.
> Yes, we've messed that up over the years, but let's not continue
> that.
>
> In other words, I'd suggest *removing* lines from CodingStyle, not
> adding them. The file has already gone from a "good general
> principles" to "lots of stupid details". Let's not make it worse.

here's a radical idea -- what about splitting the content across two
documents? you know ... perhaps "coding style aesthetics" versus
"coding distinctions" or something like that.

oh, wait ...

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/1/18

:-)

rday
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