linux-kernel - Re: Moratorium on coding style patches (was Re: [PATCH] include/linux/kernel.h: fixed coding style issues)

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:49:19 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:     piotrgregor@...ncme.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Moratorium on coding style patches (was Re: [PATCH]
 include/linux/kernel.h: fixed coding style issues)

On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 18:13 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> writes:
> > I call for a tree wide moratorium on pure coding style changes.
[]
> I'd relax this slightly and say don't do style
> patches unless as a prelude to some real work.

And exclude drivers/staging