linux-kernel - Re: md/raid1: Improve another size determination in setup

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Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2016 07:52:22 -0400
From:   "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        "linux-raid@...r.kernel.org" <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>,
        Neil Brown <neilb@...e.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
        Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: md/raid1: Improve another size determination in setup_conf()

On 2016-10-07 06:50, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> Linux has tons of issues, fixes for real problems are very welcome.
>
> Is a spectrum of software improvements to reconsider there?
>
>
>> But coding style bike shedding is just a waste of time.
>
> Why do various software developers bother about coding style specifications
> at all then?
Coding style is important, but patches that just fix coding style are a 
bad thing because they break things like `git blame` and run the risk of 
introducing new bugs without any net benefit to end users.  This goes 
double for code you don't actually work on regularly or don't completely 
understand.