Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265050AbTFCP11 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265053AbTFCP11 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:27:27 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:1474 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265050AbTFCP10 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:27:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:40:19 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: hps@intermeta.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about style when converting from K&R to ANSI C. Message-Id: <20030603084019.5e97e6bd.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030603153859.GV8978@holomorphy.com> References: <1054446976.19557.23.camel@spc> <20030601132626.GA3012@work.bitmover.com> <1054519757.161606@palladium.transmeta.com> <20030603123256.GG1253@admingilde.org> <20030603124501.GB13838@suse.de> <20030603133925.GG20413@holomorphy.com> <1054651445.25694.70.camel@forge.intermeta.de> <20030603082505.33bc3561.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030603153859.GV8978@holomorphy.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 20 On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:38:59 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote: | On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:25:05AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | > You did good (or even well considering that you are a | > non-native speaker). Yes, whitespace is a trivial problem. | > ~Randy | | Bad whitespace, along with all other coding style violations, is | a very serious maintainability problem. I agree. I mean that it's a trivial problem to fix... if the patches were to be accepted. But that's another problem. -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/