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From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 11:18 am

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:

I'm not very happy with this.

"CodingStyle" should be about the big issues, not about details. Yes, 
we've messed that up over the years, but let's not continue that.

In other words, I'd suggest *removing* lines from CodingStyle, not adding 
them. The file has already gone from a "good general principles" to "lots 
of stupid details". Let's not make it worse.

			Linus
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[PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Erez Zadok, (Fri Sep 28, 2:31 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates, Erez Zadok, (Fri Sep 28, 2:32 pm)
[PATCH 2/3] Update usage string for checkpatch.pl, Erez Zadok, (Fri Sep 28, 2:32 pm)
[PATCH 3/3] New script to check coding-style compliance on ..., Erez Zadok, (Fri Sep 28, 2:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates, Randy Dunlap, (Fri Sep 28, 2:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/3] New script to check coding-style complianc ..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Sep 29, 3:10 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates, Shawn Bohrer, (Sat Sep 29, 7:43 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates, Scott Preece, (Sat Sep 29, 8:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 29, 11:01 am)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Sep 29, 11:18 am)
Re: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates, Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Sep 29, 11:29 am)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, J. Bruce Fields, (Sat Sep 29, 12:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Randy Dunlap, (Sat Sep 29, 1:14 pm)
[OT] kbuild syntax extension for ccflags and asflags (was: ..., Ingo Oeser, (Sat Sep 29, 1:21 pm)
Re: [OT] kbuild syntax extension for ccflags and asflags ( ..., Sam Ravnborg, (Sat Sep 29, 1:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Robert P. J. Day, (Sat Sep 29, 2:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates , Erez Zadok, (Sat Sep 29, 5:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates , Linus Torvalds, (Sat Sep 29, 5:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Theodore Tso, (Sat Sep 29, 7:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Valdis.Kletnieks, (Sat Sep 29, 7:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Sep 29, 8:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Al Viro, (Sat Sep 29, 8:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates , Erez Zadok, (Sat Sep 29, 8:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Valdis.Kletnieks, (Sat Sep 29, 8:29 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Sep 29, 8:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Valdis.Kletnieks, (Sat Sep 29, 8:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates , Erez Zadok, (Sat Sep 29, 9:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Mark Lord, (Sun Sep 30, 10:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Theodore Tso, (Sun Sep 30, 10:57 am)
Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates, Randy Dunlap, (Sun Sep 30, 10:59 am)