From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935185AbYEUS5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 14:57:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756438AbYEUS5f (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 14:57:35 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:44443 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756030AbYEUS5e (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 14:57:34 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=kbiIbStosS13B+0giMCiH/7btHi3U1CEGxzAJQ13mMc4LxPwj2DItR3tAnKKuLdab0swwXgTOcXmEFJygDk9qrC3qmMD0TMUYDKDL1C4TQbb633SS0vx2eBoULWnY9CTL90m/x53QGUkIDqZGNVeCe8ONXZS0rXvjc9qM0I/UF8= Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:57:25 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: Andrew Morton Cc: Theodore Tso , Christoph Hellwig , Al Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Message-ID: <20080521185725.GD6932@cvg> References: <12113495282137-git-send-email-kongjianjun@gmail.com> <20080521083413.GM28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20080521015037.add0b78e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080521103206.GA24545@infradead.org> <20080521120939.GF8581@mit.edu> <20080521104644.5b6f4e63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080521104644.5b6f4e63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [Andrew Morton - Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46:44AM -0700] | On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 Theodore Tso wrote: | | > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:32:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: | > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:50:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: | > > > Oh, what a marvellous way to encourage new contributors that was. Thank | > > > you so much. | > > > | > > > For the record: Al speaks only for himself and a lack of expressed | > > > disagrement from others should not be taken as agreement. | > > | > > But I'd like to second the opinion. This is getting a little too far. | > > We should rather try to at least enforce very basic standards a lot of | > > the crap shoved in doesn't follow instead of wanking around about exact | > > placement of whitespaces. | > | > The real question is whether people who are wanking about whitespace | > and spelling fixes in comments will graduate to writing real, useful | > patches. If they won't, there's no point to encouraging them. | > | | Guys, get a clue. It doesn't matter what that person did. It is the | effect upon *all* other potential developers which is so damaging here. | Not upon this individual. | Btw, we have CodingStyle, SubmittingPatches and other, but why don't we have something like KernelNewbieGuide? Don't get me wrong, but there could be written all rules about - what is good to do, what is bad. So a newbiew who wants to be usefull for kernel could read it and decide what should be done. /Don't beat me ;) / And of course I know about kernelnewbie.org but this (even quite short) document could help I think. - Cyrill -