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

[Pekka J Enberg]

At some point in time, I wrote:
> > There are things that are almost generally agreed upon, such as 
> > removal of redundant typecasts, redundant wrappers, and moving 
> > assignment out of if statement expression. Formatting and the dreaded
> > sizeof thing, however, are not, so it is best to keep them as-is.

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Contributors can't know what the (supposed) _agreements_ are.
> 
> Contributors can only know what the _documented conventions_ are.

Life gets easier when you accept the fact that there are different 
conventions within the kernel, driven by maintainer preference. Which is 
why it is impossible to document a definite set of conventions too. 
CodingStyle really is just a good approximation what kernel code should 
look like. If you deviate from it too much, everyone agrees that 
you're violating it, but there definitely is room for maintainer 
preference. As a contributor, when you accept that, you'll have much 
greater chances of getting your patches merged.

				Pekka
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