Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:25:20 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc. |
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Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Pekka J Enberg wrote: >> >>> Yeah, that's what Andrew prefers but there are maintainers that disagree >>> with that. >> >> Then they should change CodingStyle. > > Better will be start use indent.
Style issues like "sizeof(struct foo)" versus "sizeof(*bar)" in memory allocation are beyond what indent can and should do.
> Coding style seems is Linux case kind of never ending story.
It's not a big deal in my limited experience, as far as there is a documented consensus.
> Keep one/common coding style in this case is someting not for small tool > but more for .. Superman/Hecules (?) [...]
Yes. Or subsystem maintainers who didn't already could adopt the documented style. Or correct the document where it doesn't reflect consensus. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- -=== =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - 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/
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