linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] Input: mms114 - use lower case for hexadecimal values

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:33:35 -0800
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>
Cc:     Simon Shields <simon@...eageos.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] Input: mms114 - use lower case for hexadecimal values

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 08:29:23AM +0900, Andi Shyti wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:56:31AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:33:20PM +0900, Andi Shyti wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>
> > 
> > But why?
> 
> I think this patch is trivial and the subject itself is quite
> self-explanatory and the commit message would be a copy-paste of
> it.

Here is where we disagree. Why lowercase is preferred over uppercase? Do
we have this in coding style (and I completely forgot about it)? Or is
it your preference (mine is too to be fair, but I also do not care
about churning the code for it)?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry