linux-kernel - Re: Please fix or revert: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts

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Message-ID: <20120425084202.GB20853@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:42:02 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	apw@...onical.com
Subject: Re: Please fix or revert: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --strict tests for
 braces, comments and casts

(Sorry about the late reply, was busy with other things.)

* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:26:54 +0200
> 
> >     If you don't "see" it as ugly it's simply because your brain
> >     is not wired up to see 3D/2D geometry as a significant
> >     source of information.
> 
> I'm sorry that I'm so handicapped that I cannot match your
> visual capabilitites.

I genuinely think that it's the other way around: if what I say 
above is true then *you* have the superior vision for coding.

Geometric properties of code are a distraction really, they 
don't matter to the end result.

So in reality keeping comments balanced helps *my* disability: 
my inability to ignore functionally irrelevant patterns of 
characters...

So I am asking *you* to do me a favor: please understand my 
perspective and insert a bit more whitespace to keep code 
readable for people like me.

( The wider question is, what is the contribution weighted 
  proportion of the two groups of kernel developers and what is 
  the disutility and utility of the two variants. It's a 
  difficult balancing task and there's no perfect solution. )

Thanks,

	Ingo
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