[PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.

Stefan Richter stefanr at s5r6.in-berlin.de
Sun Jul 23 11:16:58 EDT 2006


Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
>> Moment .. are you want to say something like "keep commont coding 
>> style can't be maintained by tool" ?

Yes and no.

>> Even if indent watches on to small coding style emenets still I don't 
>> see why using this tool isn't one of the current ement of release 
>> procedure (?).
> 
> indent isn't perfect, _especially_ where C99 comes into the picture.
> 
> And running indent across the tree pre-release would (a) create a ton of 
> noise before each release, and (b) undo perfectly valid, readable 
> formatting.
> 
> scripts/Lindent exists and gets used, but it is not perfect.

Tomasz,

yes, we have scripts/Lindent, but it cannot and is not supposed to solve 
all style issues. Coding style is about _much_ more than whitespace. It 
includes sensible names, usage of language features...

Furthermore, much of this thread revolved around style issues where a 
common coding style is not fully established in the first place.
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