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Message-ID: <20080521120939.GF8581@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@...r.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:32:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:50:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Oh, what a marvellous way to encourage new contributors that was. Thank > > you so much. > > > > For the record: Al speaks only for himself and a lack of expressed > > disagrement from others should not be taken as agreement. > > But I'd like to second the opinion. This is getting a little too far. > We should rather try to at least enforce very basic standards a lot of > the crap shoved in doesn't follow instead of wanking around about exact > placement of whitespaces. The real question is whether people who are wanking about whitespace and spelling fixes in comments will graduate to writing real, useful patches. If they won't, there's no point to encouraging them. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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