Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758766AbXI3R6R (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:58:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756898AbXI3R6I (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:58:08 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:44757 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755617AbXI3R6G (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:58:06 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:57:54 -0400 From: Theodore Tso To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Linus Torvalds , Erez Zadok , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates Message-ID: <20070930175754.GA9358@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Tso , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Linus Torvalds , Erez Zadok , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <11910151223214-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> <18163.1191119041@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <13255.1191122973@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <13255.1191122973@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 26 On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:29:33PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:00:01 PDT, Linus Torvalds said: > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > 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. > > > > No. > > > > People whine too much as is. Don't give them *license* to do so. > > I kind of meant the *maintainers* couldn't whine about things not in CodingStyle ;) > And yet people want to give license for maintainers to whine about parenthesis in printk's? Wow. - Ted - 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/