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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1206242258230.30361@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Sun, 24 Jun 2012 23:01:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
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, 24 Jun 2012, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> 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.
> 
Ok. I'll redo it as a series. It'll take a little while, so I may not 
finish it tonight, but I'll do it.

> It frustrates me that you would do things like this when you know
> the rules.  Which part is difficult to understand?
> 
Nothing is difficult to understand, but breaking this into (for example) a 
series that does:
	1) fix the indentation to use tabs and not spaces and proper depth
	2) remove space between cast and variable
	3) add spaces around operators (like "foo && bar" rather than "foo&&bar")
	4) add {} to all branches of if statement if one needs it (or remove if none need them)
would, for many lines, result in all 4 patches changing the same lines.
That just seemed like a little too much churn for a trivial style cleanup 
patch.

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