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Subject: Re: Moratorium on coding style patches (was Re: [PATCH]
 include/linux/kernel.h: fixed coding style issues)
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, piotrgregor@rsyncme.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:03:13 -0800
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(Adding Greg KH)

On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 11:54 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 18:13 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > I call for a tree wide moratorium on pure coding style changes.
> > 
> > []
> > > I'd relax this slightly and say don't do style
> > > patches unless as a prelude to some real work.
> > 
> > And exclude drivers/staging
> 
> I wouldn't mind seeing staging deleted.  What makes those drivers so
> special that they deserve to be included in the main tree without
> meeting even the most basic of standards normally required?

People actually use them. (well, some of them)