Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756199AbXEII7p (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754396AbXEII7g (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:59:36 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:48826 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752097AbXEII7f (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 04:59:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=dQ3zUOO4/fcRv3OCU/0ieHxb6nDdxSjrGq+fg5SwoiVA2fnkXInHAiuszwrSeYX6q5EJVnNfmOLEgAqe4mWJOA1eSfpL8fEtRHaOSXzanlurGMAdmUOFlFFAa3niPKv+To5F4J9pLQQte2KDR3ru2Sx6VlD7d3DzwvCQJH8DXgo= Message-ID: <84144f020705090159t72ea1bd8qccc60791f3be8db@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 11:59:33 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Stefan Richter" Subject: Re: CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces Cc: "Satyam Sharma" , "Jeff Garzik" , "Randy Dunlap" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <4641836C.200@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200705081903.l48J3AOw010373@hera.kernel.org> <20070508124301.17975a4f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4640E971.9050400@garzik.org> <4641836C.200@s5r6.in-berlin.de> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8bba01b839967778 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 17 On 5/9/07, Stefan Richter wrote: > I don't know which form is better suited to the goal of well > maintainable code --- the compact, easy to read, winning guideline, or > the comprehensive norm. Bah, it's a slippery slope. Too little guidelines and we end up people submitting code that is "obviously" violating Linux coding standards on the basis of that it's not forbidden by Documentation/CodingStyle. And with too much detail, we end up with something that nobody wants to read let alone follow. So what CodingStyle should say, really, is that maintainers have different preference and you're usually better off following them than fighting against them ;-). - 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/