Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] CODING_STYLE amendments

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 08/22/2010 11:49 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>> While wasting time for historical reasons is certainly better than
>>> wasting time for the heck of it, it's arguably worse than stopping the
>>> waste.
>>>        
>> But how would you do that? Drop the CODING_STYLE (and accept
>> anything)? Switch to a new CODING_STYLE that is widely appreciated and
>> so all bikeshedding will cease? Enforce current style?
>>      
> I would suggest we either clean up the existing rule, or switch to the
> Linux kernel style, with the explicit exemption that existing code can
> keep the 4-char indentation, unless the whole file is converted. I'd
> like to avoid a total reformatting of the codebase, but we could look at
> it on a file by file base if it becomes relevant.
>    

Why is this even still being discussed?  What problem are people 
actually trying to solve?

Can someone point to a bug in QEMU that's been caused because of 
CODING_STYLE or the fact that some patches don't adhere to it?

I don't see a problem with the way things are today.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Jes
>