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From:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...>
To: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Erez Zadok <ezk@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
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Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 4:14 pm
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:56:38 -0400 J. Bruce Fields wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:18:05AM -0700, Linus Torvalds 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. > > It'd be nice to split the current CodingStyle into two documents:
I agree. This is just what I was thinking during lunch.
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> - A shorter CodingStyle that gives the spirit of the style > (short functions, minimal nesting, logic as straightforward as > possible, etc.), and addresses the most commonly repeated > mistakes, without so much detail that people's eyes glaze > over. You want to be able to recommend it to your students > (or whoever) in reasonable confidence that they'll actually > read it and have fun (leave the jokes in!). Currently I'm > suspicious that it's becoming something that everybody > recommends but noone bothers to sit down and read anymore > unless they're working on it. > > - A CodingStyleReference that's just a long dry list of rules, > organized to make it easy to look up an individual rule when > needed. That'd also take the pressure of CodingStyle to > accept every new detail. > > It'd be a start just to revert CodingStyle to its original content and > move the rest to CodingStyleReference. But someone would want to skim > through the CodingStyle history for any legimate corrections that we > want to keep.
--- ~Randy Phaedrus says that Quality is about caring. -
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