Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264346AbTFIRT0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:19:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264471AbTFIRT0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:19:26 -0400 Received: from zeke.inet.com ([199.171.211.198]:19150 "EHLO zeke.inet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264346AbTFIRTZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:19:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3EE4C4CD.1050809@inet.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:33:01 -0500 From: Eli Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Davide Libenzi CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Coding standards. (Was: Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block) References: <20030604065336.A7755@infradead.org> <3EDE0E85.7090601@techsource.com> <20030607001202.GB14475@kroah.com> <3EE4B4C3.80902@techsource.com> <20030609163959.GA13811@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1289 Lines: 30 Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] J?rn Engel wrote: > > >>In the case of the kernel, there is quite a bit of horrible coding >>style. But a working device driver for some hardware is always better >>that no working device driver for some hardware, and if enforcing the >>coding style more results is scaring away some driver writers, the >>style clearly loses. > > > There's no such a thing as "horrible coding style", since coding style is > strictly personal. Whoever try to convince you that one style is better > than another one is simply plain wrong. Every reason they will give you to > justify one style can be wiped with other opposite reasons. The only > horrible coding style is to not respect coding standards when you work > inside a project. I beg to differ: http://www0.us.ioccc.org/2001/anonymous.c ;) Eli --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `------------------------------------------------- - 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/