Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:28:18 -0400
Message-Id: <200709300328.l8U3SIl3022352@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
From: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>, 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 22:06:37 EDT."
             <20070930020637.GA29996@thunk.org> 
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In message <20070930020637.GA29996@thunk.org>, Theodore Tso writes:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:56:38PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > It'd be a start just to revert CodingStyle to its original content and
> > move the rest to CodingStyleReference.  But someone would want to skim
> > through the CodingStyle history for any legimate corrections that we
> > want to keep.
> 
> How about CodingStyleSuggestions?  And let's make it clear they are
> suggestions, and not things that checkpatch should be flaming about
> unless people request the all of the annoying associated false
> positives via --spam-me-harder.  :-)

FWIW, the checkpatch script is woefully out of sync with CodingStyle.  I
assume that checkpatch.pl is generally more authoritative (sans "(%d)" :-)

>        	      	      	       			  - Ted

Erez.
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