Dan,

My intent was to say that I did not have any problem with the
change you made to re-format the code.   I think following the
linux kernel coding style is the right way to go.

-- Jim Mankovich | jm...@hp.com (US Mountain Time) --

On 4/4/2013 3:09 PM, Dan Gora wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Jim Mankovich <jm...@hp.com> wrote:
>> I don't have any problem with the code formatting.   I personally
>> leave code formatting alone in ipmitool for any code I don't explicitly
>> need to make a functional change to.
>>
> I do too.. really... I do have better things to do with my time!
> However I cannot change code that I cannot read, and I cannot read
> code which wraps over 80 columns all the time.
>
> No, I'm not hard-core about it. Of course there are exceptions.
> However if we cannot all agree on simple things like "use 8 char
> tabstops" and "_try_ to limit lines to 80 chars", then there is no
> hope at all.  That's why I try and follow the linux kernel coding
> style.
>
> I thought that the two screen shots showed my point pretty clearly.  I
> cannot for the life of me understand how someone would think that the
> 'before' case is somehow easier to read.
>
> Really I don't think that patches should be disqualified for coding
> style unless there is something really egregious, especially when
> there is no documented coding style and the current code is pretty
> clearly a mash of many different ones.
>
> thanks
> dan
>


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