Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:08:45 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Free Linux Driver Development! |
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Lee Revell wrote: > On 1/31/07, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote: >> I believe a BIG reason why lots of open-source drivers are out-of-tree >> right now, is because lkml is perceived as being wayyyyyy too fussy >> and petty about 80-column lines, brackets, etc.. for new code. >> >> It's just not worth the effort/abuse for many maintainers to pursue it. > > That seems like the easy part - it seems like anyone bright enough to > write a working Linux driver would be good enough with their editor or > perl or bash to knock that out in 10 minutes.
Or simply running it through scripts/Lindent, which fixes 97% of all issues automatically. The remaining 3% become fixing Lindent's lack of C99 knowledge, etc.
Jeff
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