Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:40:29 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Coding style correction on some drivers that use Generic HDLC | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:26:57 +0100 (CET)
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Rudy Matela wrote: > >> > It is ok until the driver is removed, if this "issue" is not fixed it >> > will trigger any check-coding-style and generate new patches. Since it >> > involves no code changes it is harmless. >> Sould I keep sending coding style corrections to the Linux Kernel? >> I'm trying to help, but if i'm just being annoying, please tell me and >> I can try to contribute in a better way. :-) > > Coding style corrections (if they really improve readability of the code), > comment fixes (if they really make grepping for things better or make the > whole text more understandable) are welcome and I will happily merge them. > > What I usually don't merge are purely whitespace "fixes", which don't > really fix anything in fact.
I think the whitespace ones here are extremely valuable, the code is amazingly annoying to read as it is.
It boils down to this:
foo() is a C function call
foo () is a C operation like 'if', 'while' etc.
and people's brains are wired to this association.
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