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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:08:45 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
CC: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development!
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Lee Revell wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>> I believe a BIG reason why lots of open-source drivers are out-of-tree
>> right now, is because lkml is perceived as being wayyyyyy too fussy
>> and petty about 80-column lines, brackets, etc.. for new code.
>>
>> It's just not worth the effort/abuse for many maintainers to pursue it.
> 
> That seems like the easy part - it seems like anyone bright enough to
> write a working Linux driver would be good enough with their editor or
> perl or bash to knock that out in 10 minutes.


Or simply running it through scripts/Lindent, which fixes 97% of all 
issues automatically.  The remaining 3% become fixing Lindent's lack of 
C99 knowledge, etc.

	Jeff


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