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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Grigori Goronzy <greg@chown.ath.cx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/14] USB: ch341: fix coding style
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 20:10:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160406181048.GC29820@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57054E4C.1090307@chown.ath.cx>

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 07:58:36PM +0200, Grigori Goronzy wrote:
> On 04/02/2016 07:29 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Most of the whitespace only changes are undesired.
>
> Well, the style wasn't very consistent.  I think consistency is
> important.  So I took the liberty of deciding for one style and stuck
> to it.
> 
> > Multi-line statements here are using alignment to
> > open parenthesis which for some is the preferred
> > style.
> 
> I didn't use alignment to open parentheses because that is often
> reducing the usable space per line too much.  So you have to break lines
> a lot and code becomes less readable.
> 
> Of course, I'm open to arguments if and why a particular style should be
> preferred.  Maybe we should try to mostly avoid these bikeshed
> discussions though. :)

As Joe already said, we generally don't want indentation-only changes to
existing code. Just try to stick to the style of the driver (even if
it's inconsistent at times).

Thanks,
Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-02 17:07 Major improvements to the ch341 driver Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] USB: ch341: improve documentation Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-06 11:58   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] USB: ch341: fix error handling on resume Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] USB: ch341: add LCR register definitions Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] USB: ch341: add definitions for modem control Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] USB: ch341: fix USB buffer allocations Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-04  7:13   ` Oliver Neukum
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] USB: ch341: reinitialize chip on reconfiguration Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-10 13:24   ` Clemens Ladisch
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] USB: ch341: add support for parity, frame length, stop bits Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-03 15:58   ` Karl Palsson
2016-04-06 11:59   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] USB: ch341: add debug output for chip version Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] USB: ch341: add support for RTS/CTS flow control Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] USB: ch341: fix coding style Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:29   ` Joe Perches
2016-04-06 17:58     ` Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-06 18:10       ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2016-04-07  1:11         ` Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] USB: ch341: clean up messages Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] USB: ch341: improve B0 handling Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] USB: ch341: get rid of default configuration Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-02 17:07 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] USB: ch341: implement tx_empty callback Grigori Goronzy
2016-04-03 16:03   ` Karl Palsson
2016-04-06 18:03     ` Grigori Goronzy

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