linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Capitalize letters for readability

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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 16:49:51 -0400
From: Steven Davis <goldside000@...look.com>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Capitalize letters for readability

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:21:24 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> x1:/usr/src/25> grep "  pr_[^(]*.*: [A-Z]" mm/*.c | wc -l
> 34
> x1:/usr/src/25> grep "  pr_[^(]*.*: [a-z]" mm/*.c | wc -l
> 97

Huh. I guess I missed a lot of them.

> If we're going to make this change then we should change everything,
> add a checkpatch rule, etc.

If that approach works, we could do it, I guess. Sounds like a lot of
work for capitalization changes.

> But I do think such a change is too trivial to justify churning the
> code around.

So how do we proceed? I could move onto another patch, or, as you said,
change everything and add a checkpatch rule.

You're the boss.

		Steven