On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:24:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:18:05 PDT, Linus Torvalds said: > > > "CodingStyle" should be about the big issues, not about details. Yes, > > we've messed that up over the years, but let's not continue that. > > > > In other words, I'd suggest *removing* lines from CodingStyle, not adding > > them. The file has already gone from a "good general principles" to "lots > > of stupid details". Let's not make it worse. > > I think there needs to be a "sense of fairness" attached here - CodingStyle > should cover all the stuff maintainers/reviewers are allowed to whinge about. > Otherwise, we get maintainers whinging about undocumented style rules, and > we get code submitters who are unhappy because they have no real way to tell > if their code really *is* stylistically lacking, or if they just have a > jerk maintainer who wants to keep their code out-of-tree for political > reasons.
... and no matter how many rules you put down, it's still possible to write a code that will be awful stylistically while adhering to all of them. Religiously. IOW, it's not going to eliminate that kind of fights. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/