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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:25:29 -0800
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On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 06:16 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Therefore, it's plain as can be that this is just more jumping through
> arbitrary and capricious hoops that others are not required to follow.
> At *thousands* of examples, including in the tcp*.c files themselves, it
> really becomes obvious that that may be a personal preference of David,
> but is *not* a tree-wide or even a net-wide coding style.

It seems similar kernel source uses are mostly historic.

Relatively little new code is added with leading || or &&.
There is some in staging/, but it normally gets removed.

> So, I'll try again now, with the assurance that this is the final hoop.

Once more into the breach or men of few words are the best men?
I'll stop typing now...