Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759281AbXFOUk3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:40:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755874AbXFOUkN (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:40:13 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:38472 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758379AbXFOUkL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:40:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:39:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Cyrill Gorcunov , "Kok, Auke" , Randy Dunlap , Chris Friesen , dave young , Willy Tarreau , LKML Subject: Re: coding style In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <46721F18.8090303@intel.com> <20070615173206.GA8151@cvg> <4672D246.2040306@nortel.com> <20070615110326.b0762b7a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070615191804.GC8151@cvg> <4672E6B3.1080205@intel.com> <20070615194140.GE8151@cvg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 31 On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Linux maintainers will enforce \t "being"[1] 8, and will also enforce > the 80-column limit[2]. Heh. Actually, Linux maintainers have generally very consciously _avoided_ trying to "enforce" coding style issues. We encourage. Sometimes people actually end up running "lindent" on code and enforce the rules through that, but that is actually fairly rare, and most of the time that happens only when somebody decides to tackle some subsystem that hasn't effectively been maintained in a while, and in order to do cleanups, the person needs to just make it readable first. Is that the _onbly_ case when we do that? No. There's the occasional Lindent run done randomly, usually brought on by something _really_ atrocious, but I would say that generally we try to keep code churn due to _just_ coding style issues to a minimum. I do sometimes end up not taking *new* code if it is really really ugly. So it definitely happens. But... Linus - 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/