Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Johannes Weiner - Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:42:32PM +0200]
| Hi,
| 
| Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> writes:
| 
| > [Andrew Morton - Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46:44AM -0700]
| > | On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> 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.
| 
| How about the following?
| 
| ---
| 
| From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
| Subject: [PATCH] CodingStyle: no more trivial coding style fixes, please
| 
| Add a note to CodingStyle that style cleanups should only be done if the
| code is really offending and violating the kernel conventions heavily.
| But no more oneliners fixing indentation and the like.
| 
| Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
| ---
| 
|  Documentation/CodingStyle |   12 ++++++++++++
|  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
| 
| --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
| +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
| @@ -783,6 +783,18 @@ own custom mode, or may have some other 
|  work correctly.
|  
|  
| +		Chapter 19:  No coding style patches, please
| +
| +While all these conventions should be honored when writing new code
| +please do not send patches that fix minimal coding style issues only.
| +
| +If a whole file or several logically connected ones are in a really
| +bad shape (i.e. violating several points named here), a patch cleaning
| +them up in one go is okay.
| +
| +But do not send patches that fix indentation of two lines.  It is not
| +worth the effort.
| +
|  
|  		Appendix I: References
| 

I liked it, really. Thanks!

		- Cyrill -