From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>, Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-rng: Undo mess made by an 80 column extremist
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:11:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18024.47852.272454.21519@stoffel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070608020730.GD23290@havoc.gtf.org>
Jeff> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 09:56:06PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
>> Thinking about it more, I wonder if Krysztof is bitching more about
>> the tab width of 8 characters? I know that it ticks me off,
Jeff> Even if he is, _that_ is definitely not getting changed.
Oh sure... I know that part is written in stone.
Jeff> That was the very first item Linus wrote in
Jeff> Documentation/CodingStyle, and for good reasons.
I could argue that 4 spaces would be a better level, but it's a
personal preference and not worth the battle.
Jeff> If code starts creeping way right due to indentation levels,
Jeff> create a new function.
Sure... compilers are good, us humans haven't gotten much better, make
it easier on us and harder on the computer.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-08 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-07 15:22 Alan Cox
2007-06-07 15:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 15:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-07 17:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-07 21:17 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-06-07 21:32 ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-06-07 22:06 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-06-08 1:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-08 1:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-08 10:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-09 20:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-06-07 22:32 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-07 22:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-06-07 23:01 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-07 22:46 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-07 23:04 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-06-08 1:44 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-08 1:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-08 1:56 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-08 2:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-08 2:11 ` John Stoffel [this message]
2007-06-08 18:21 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-06-09 20:41 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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