Return-path: Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:54488 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753278Ab2EGVeh (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2012 17:34:37 -0400 Message-ID: <1336426419.5970.131.camel@aeonflux> (sfid-20120507_233443_060448_366EE161) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Fix coding style From: Marcel Holtmann To: David Miller Cc: lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi, andrei.emeltchenko.news@gmail.com, dh.herrmann@googlemail.com, gustavo@padovan.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 14:33:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20120507.160609.1784484093679983272.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20120507081411.GA19002@aemeltch-MOBL1> <20120507.115228.1171858914064928263.davem@davemloft.net> <20120507.160609.1784484093679983272.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Dave, > > Doing so also means we don't create our own rules and impose them on > > others, like happened some time ago > > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/473). > > You conveniently forgot to show that Linus said that it's OK for a > subsystem maintainer to request that kind of coding style, it's just > not OK to impose it tree-wide. may I ask some clarification on to what level of subsystem maintainers this applies. Is this only 1st level subsystem. Or would this extend to 2nd level subsystems as well? Regards Marcel