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Subject: Re: md/raid1: Improve another size determination in setup_conf()
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On 2016-10-07 06:50, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> Linux has tons of issues, fixes for real problems are very welcome.
>
> Is a spectrum of software improvements to reconsider there?
>
>
>> But coding style bike shedding is just a waste of time.
>
> Why do various software developers bother about coding style specifications
> at all then?
Coding style is important, but patches that just fix coding style are a 
bad thing because they break things like `git blame` and run the risk of 
introducing new bugs without any net benefit to end users.  This goes 
double for code you don't actually work on regularly or don't completely 
understand.