Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:00:50 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08 |
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On Jul 25 2007 02:22, Paul Mundt wrote: >Perhaps CodingStyle can start being versioned, so people can opt out of >certain 'improvements' whenever someone has a vision, much like some >nameless licenses.
I'd say Codingstyle is versioned by means of git commit IDs.
> >Personally I prefer the second style, and if there's a comment block, >then it makes sense to complete the tree with {}'s (the keyword here is >prefer, as it's a personal preference). checkpatch has been quite useful >for catching obviously broken things, and now it seems like it's just >overreaching. Perhaps this functionality can be split in to a lite >checkpatch for catching show-stoppers for application and then something >more akin to a CodingStyle validator for the folks interested in >arbitrarily defining convention, which they can use freely while the rest >of us try to get something useful done.
/me thinks of ... checkpath --check-me-harder
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