linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH trivial] include/linux/memcontrol.h: Clean up code only

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:14:06 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:	Chen Gang <chengang@...ndsoft.com.cn>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, trivial@...nel.org,
	vdavydov@...tuozzo.com, hannes@...xchg.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	tj@...nel.org, riel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH trivial] include/linux/memcontrol.h: Clean up code only

On Fri 10-06-16 08:40:30, Chen Gang wrote:
> 
> On 6/9/16 23:46, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > That's being said, I appreciate an interest in making the code cleaner
> > but try to think whether these changes are actually helpful and who is
> > going to benefit from them.
> > 
> 
> For me, another readers can get benefit more or less from it: if read a
> simple line can know the whole thing (function work), why need we read
> multiple lines?

Yes I understand that this is a matter of taste but as I've said above.
I do not see this would add a benefit to justify the change.

If you are doing a reformating or white space cleanups always try to
think about those who want/need to dig into the history to understand
the code and this would add an additional step to get to the original
commit which is added the code. This is just wasting of time.

Now this would be much more tolerable when the code in question was a
maze but this is not the case.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs