linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid

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Date:   Fri, 4 Mar 2022 13:31:48 +0100
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Konrad Wilhelm Kleine <kkleine@...hat.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        kashyap.desai@...adcom.com, sumit.saxena@...adcom.com,
        shivasharan.srikanteshwara@...adcom.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com, scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 5:03 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> It's up to individual maintainers to each decide on what might be
> considered unnecessary churn for the subsystems they control.
>
> One argument is that churn leads to difficulty in backporting
> fixes to older 'stable' versions.
>
> I think the churn argument is overstated.

I was only pointing out that, for the global `.clang-format` file, the
style in `coding-style.rst` should be followed. Then subsystem
maintainers may override it if really needed.

I definitely agree that we should aim to have a consistent style.
However, by allowing a few exceptions, some major subsystems may start
using `clang-format` sooner.

Cheers,
Miguel