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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: >> Moment .. are you want to say something like "keep commont coding >> style can't be maintained by tool" ? Yes and no. >> Even if indent watches on to small coding style emenets still I don't >> see why using this tool isn't one of the current ement of release >> procedure (?). > > indent isn't perfect, _especially_ where C99 comes into the picture. > > And running indent across the tree pre-release would (a) create a ton of > noise before each release, and (b) undo perfectly valid, readable > formatting. > > scripts/Lindent exists and gets used, but it is not perfect. Tomasz, yes, we have scripts/Lindent, but it cannot and is not supposed to solve all style issues. Coding style is about _much_ more than whitespace. It includes sensible names, usage of language features... Furthermore, much of this thread revolved around style issues where a common coding style is not fully established in the first place. -- 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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