From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759626AbYEVEv4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 00:51:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbYEVEvq (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 00:51:46 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.229]:61016 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751062AbYEVEvp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 May 2008 00:51:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NG71mwxm6j+L8BBI3L1qwPeIdZXuNbSZ+BRg+TU4I9dmAo2+p+MF/B0BGIYz1xp9tkuFtwZllOjM1pnappTEjr23kf/tUktQVzZUk7Qcl1v19hN7aefPjCAjhIDKWEQLbdMPUVV1gyaehVUg0uOZ8GhMqL1fA1OSEeRZt72Joc0= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 08:51:44 +0400 From: "Cyrill Gorcunov" To: "Jesper Juhl" Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@vger.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) Cc: "Jonathan Corbet" , rdunlap@xenotime.net, tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, "Andrew Morton" In-Reply-To: <9a8748490805211646s5ef93f8ey43ebbc7746fb1a3b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490805211306l50b8411ax4462be18c94ca065@mail.gmail.com> <32279.1211401651@vena.lwn.net> <9a8748490805211337q1e7ceab7i80e4820c46f8171b@mail.gmail.com> <9a8748490805211646s5ef93f8ey43ebbc7746fb1a3b@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Jesper Juhl wrote: [...] > > Try to stay away from doing pointless work, like just fixing up the > coding style in a file, reformatting comments etc - it's not worth the > effort and your patch is likely to be rejected... [...] Quite good document, I must say. Jesper, I think that part of text (what to stay away from) *must* be marked special somehow. I'm not sure if every newbie would read this document before sending patch but we will be able to say "Hey, we warned you not the once about useless work! Don't do that again!" (maybe it should be even CAPITALIZED)