Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752653AbYHLSBV (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:01:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751507AbYHLSBN (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:01:13 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:41580 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459AbYHLSBM (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:01:12 -0400 To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Alan Stern , Randy Dunlap , Joel Schopp , Kernel development list Subject: Re: Possible false positive in checkpatch References: <20080812171800.GA29207@brain> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:01:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080812171800.GA29207@brain> (Andy Whitcroft's message of "Tue\, 12 Aug 2008 18\:18\:00 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 18 Andy Whitcroft writes: > The recommendations it makes match the style of the whole, which new > contributions should follow. But there isn't any "style of the whole". Existing styles differ. While I guess there is some agreement about the base (tab width, mostly K&R, don't do "char* ptr" etc.), the rest are simply views of single persons. This is IMHO fine as long as it's useful for the community, but not past this point. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- 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/