Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755800AbXI3CYR (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:24:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751416AbXI3CYL (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:24:11 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:38649 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751273AbXI3CYK (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:24:10 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Erez Zadok , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:18:05 PDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <11910151223214-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1191119041_2993P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:24:01 -0400 Message-ID: <18163.1191119041@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1501 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_1191119041_2993P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:18:05 PDT, Linus Torvalds said: > "CodingStyle" should be about the big issues, not about details. Yes, > we've messed that up over the years, but let's not continue that. > > In other words, I'd suggest *removing* lines from CodingStyle, not adding > them. The file has already gone from a "good general principles" to "lots > of stupid details". Let's not make it worse. I think there needs to be a "sense of fairness" attached here - CodingStyle should cover all the stuff maintainers/reviewers are allowed to whinge about. Otherwise, we get maintainers whinging about undocumented style rules, and we get code submitters who are unhappy because they have no real way to tell if their code really *is* stylistically lacking, or if they just have a jerk maintainer who wants to keep their code out-of-tree for political reasons. --==_Exmh_1191119041_2993P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFG/wjBcC3lWbTT17ARAuvPAKDPvwDe1tJnQQXK9D8RLZZ7YGuMdACg7A4E 8E6JdKgaHfq1V1kRmOFzDto= =wSqA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1191119041_2993P-- - 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/