Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Jan 1997 14:08:32 -0500 | Subject | Coding style | From | (Dale R. Worley) |
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Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote: >As far as I know, Linux has refused to dictate coding style -- the >Documentation/CodingStyle file is a suggestion, not a requirement. To >quote from that file, "Coding style is very personal, and won't _force_ >my views on anybody...".
Though as far as I can tell, almost all of the kernel code is written with that unusual 8-character indent, and I'm told that that is Linus' doing.
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