Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762945AbXFECdU (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757790AbXFECdN (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:33:13 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:53223 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757468AbXFECdN (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:33:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4664CAFF.2040300@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:31:27 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Jan Engelhardt , Randy Dunlap , Al Viro , LKML , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels References: <20070603142450.GA4230@localhost.localdomain> <20070603142939.GW4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070603074552.430c3d02.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4662DFCF.3010606@garzik.org> <46644B97.2010506@zytor.com> <46644F57.80005@zytor.com> <20070604175751.GB3437@dhcp83-182.boston.redhat.com> <20070605021027.GD2498@localhost.localdomain> <20070605021210.GG31462@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20070605021210.GG31462@havoc.gtf.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 25 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >> So, it seems that we can reach an agreement. Any other comments or suggestions? >> Or can someone ack/merge this patch? > > Honestly, I think not reaching an agreement is a good thing. > > "style" is always ultimately in the eye of the beholder, and reasoned > people come up with multiple answers to the same question. > > Sometimes it's better _not_ to set things in stone. "use your > judgement" and "follow the existing style" go a long way. > Indeed. Quite frankly, style guides would be a lot less obnoxious if there weren't always people who felt the need to "correct" other people's styles. That is usually a rather obnoxious thing to do, at least as long as the code is reasonably clean to start out with. -hpa - 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/