linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] signal: clean up codestyle

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Date:   Tue, 1 Sep 2020 18:39:05 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com,
        gustavoars@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signal: clean up codestyle

On 09/01, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 07:58:00AM -0400, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> > No functional change intended.
>
> Hey Miaohe,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
> I'm sure this is well-intended but afaict the whole file has more or
> less a consistent style already where e.g. sig-1 without spaces seems to
> be preferred. The same for the casts where most places use a single
> space.
>
> Now, I know CodingStyle.rst is on your side at least when it comes to
> the first point:
>
> Use one space around (on each side of) most binary and ternary operators,
> such as any of these::
>
> 	=  +  -  <  >  *  /  %  |  &  ^  <=  >=  ==  !=  ?  :
>
> but then you'd need to change each place in kernel/signal.c where that
> is currently not the case.

Or simply leave this code alone ;)

To be honest I do not like the very idea of enforce-coding-style patches,
coding style is very personal and even this trivial (but imho pointless)
change can complicate the backporting of some bugfix. I hit this problem
quite often.

Oleg.