linux-kernel - Re: CFD: linux-wanking@...r.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)

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Message-ID: <aa79d98a0805212151y22190e09kddfde7514c184c26@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 08:51:44 +0400
From:	"Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Cc:	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	tytso@....edu, hch@...radead.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: CFD: linux-wanking@...r.kernel.org (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments)

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> Try to stay away from doing pointless work, like just fixing up the
> coding style in a file, reformatting comments etc - it's not worth the
> effort and your patch is likely to be rejected...
[...]

Quite good document, I must say. Jesper, I think that part of
text (what to stay away from) *must* be marked special somehow.
I'm not sure if every newbie would read this document before sending
patch but we will be able to say "Hey, we warned you not the once
about useless work! Don't do that again!" (maybe it should be
even CAPITALIZED)
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