Re: Coding standards. (Was: Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write

Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:24:35 -0400


Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:21:41AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>>Perhaps it would be good to have an explanation for the relative
>>importance of placing braces and else on the same line as compared to
>>other formatting standards.
>
>
> Please read Documentation/CodingStyle.
>
> If you want more justification, read my OLS 2001 paper.
>

Well, the coding style you propose isn't exactly the way I do things
(although it's pretty close). For instance, I'm not accustomed to using
a single tab character for indent. Having more experience with X11
internals than Linux, you can see where I would get my four-space indent
habit from. No matter. I can easily adapt.

One thing I wanted to mention, however, is that your tongue-in-cheek
style doesn't help you. Coding style is something that needs to be
taken seriously when you're setting standards.

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