linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Style cleanup of iwctl

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Date:	Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:47:11 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net>,
	Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Style cleanup of iwctl

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 09:45:58PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Clean up the files iwctl.c and iwctl.h to match the official
> CodingStyle a bit more closely.
> 
> This is *not* a complete cleanup, but it brings the files quite close
> to the accepted style compared to the state they were originally in
> (which was a complete mess IMHO).
> 
> It's mostly just whitespace changes, but there are also a few
> pointless casts that were removed, a few tiny reshuffelings of code to
> reduce indentation etc, but nothing major. There are no functional
> changes.
> 
> I could have split this in multiple patches, I guess, but then I'd
> probably have ended up with a bunch of patches all touching the same
> lines multiple times in order to make multiple different changes and
> that didn't seem worth it.  I opted to just do the whole thing in one
> big patch, then we at least have a sane base upon which to apply
> future smaller cleanups.

Nope.  It is worth it.  Broken out patches are a million times
easier to review.

It frustrates me that you would do things like this when you know
the rules.  Which part is difficult to understand?

regards,
dan carpenter

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