Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] More whitespace and coding style clean ups ahead of future changes

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-03-22 01:05, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 21/03/2012 22:02, Peter Portante ha scritto:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Please forgive me if you find these changes are annoying, as I am trying to
>> learn the ropes of patch submission with git ahead of making a real patch.
>>
>> While working on the code, I found that scripts/checkpatch.pl will flag lines
>> that I am changing as not adhereing to the codeing standard due to
>> pre-existing coding violations. So I figured I could learn a bit about how to
>> submit patches by fixing these files I will be touching before submitting the
>> code changes.
> 
> I think slirp is a mess and it's not worth doing this kind of sweeping
> change.  Just ignore checkpatch output for slirp.

In fact, I could imagine accepting slirp cleanups provided they come in
palatable pieces and validate that the binary output is unchanged. It's
really a pain changing something in slirp having to use a totally
inconsistent style just to keep the code slightly readable.

Jan

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