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From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>, <apw@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length
Date: Monday, April 7, 2008 - 12:37 pm

On Apr. 06, 2008, 14:08 +0300, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

Resistance to change is only natural, but OTOH no change leads to stagnation.
I completely agree that if we don't encourage this as an alternative it will
indeed never happen but just saying "forget it" brings us nowhere.

I still believe that once people get used to this mentally they can see this
method's merits and how its logic relates to the program's structure: syntax
and coding style.

Benny


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[patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Apr 6, 12:54 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Tue Apr 8, 1:12 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Benny Halevy, (Wed Apr 9, 8:19 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Wed Apr 9, 9:25 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Benny Halevy, (Wed Apr 9, 1:02 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Al Viro, (Fri Apr 11, 8:26 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Benny Halevy, (Sun Apr 13, 5:53 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Al Viro, (Sun Apr 13, 11:18 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Benny Halevy, (Tue Apr 15, 5:09 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, SL Baur, (Thu Apr 10, 7:52 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Apr 11, 12:24 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Wed Apr 9, 4:16 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Stefan Richter, (Wed Apr 9, 1:27 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Benny Halevy, (Wed Apr 9, 8:10 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andi Kleen, (Tue Apr 8, 2:01 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Wed Apr 9, 4:19 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Wed Apr 9, 4:30 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andi Kleen, (Wed Apr 9, 4:46 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Wed Apr 9, 9:14 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Randy Dunlap, (Wed Apr 9, 11:14 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Jan Engelhardt, (Wed Apr 9, 9:18 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Wed Apr 9, 9:58 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andrew Morton, (Wed Apr 9, 12:53 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Wed Apr 9, 4:07 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andy Whitcroft, (Fri Apr 11, 11:54 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andi Kleen, (Wed Apr 9, 1:43 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Apr 6, 6:08 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Sam Ravnborg, (Sun Apr 6, 7:08 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Benny Halevy, (Mon Apr 7, 12:37 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Andrew Morton, (Sun Apr 6, 1:18 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Benny Halevy, (Sun Apr 6, 7:52 am)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Joe Perches, (Sun Apr 6, 2:52 pm)
Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length, Boaz Harrosh, (Mon Apr 7, 5:51 am)