From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:27:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FCFC93.9010209@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47FCF6AF.8010703@panasas.com>
Benny Halevy wrote:
> Stefan Richter in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/523 commented:
>> Jan Engelhardt, Benny Halevy, and Richard Knutsson wrote:
>> > -Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.
>> > -There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!)
>> > -characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to
>> > -be 3.
>>
>> Don't do this
>
> Again, I see no real reasons why not to besides being against Stefan's
> preferences.
BTW, my preference was about keeping the last traces of witty language
in this text, not about any particular whitespace language.
(Do you have an idea who wrote the sentences which that patch wanted to
delete, and more importantly, *why* he wrote it this way? You
apparently don't yet, but maybe you think about it once more. Thanks.)
--
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- -=-- -=--=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-09 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-06 4:54 Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-06 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-06 11:52 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-06 18:52 ` Joe Perches
2008-04-07 9:51 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-04-06 10:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-06 11:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-07 16:37 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-08 17:12 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-08 18:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 8:19 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 8:30 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 8:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 13:14 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 13:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:58 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 16:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-09 17:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 20:07 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-11 15:54 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 15:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-09 12:10 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 12:19 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 13:25 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 17:02 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 17:27 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-04-09 20:16 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-10 23:52 ` SL Baur
2008-04-11 4:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-12 0:26 ` Al Viro
2008-04-13 9:53 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-13 15:18 ` Al Viro
2008-04-15 9:09 ` Benny Halevy
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