Re: coding style

[Stefan Richter]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jun 15 2007 13:39, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Linux maintainers will enforce \t "being"[1] 8, and will also enforce
>>> the 80-column limit[2].
>> Heh. Actually, Linux maintainers have generally very consciously _avoided_ 
>> trying to "enforce" coding style issues.
> 
> Really? "it's not going to be merged unless you turn all uint32_t into
> u_int32_t" is a paraphrased variant of what I was told this month.

Here is a 3rd variant:  I mostly enforce CodingStyle as far as I am
aware of deviations, but because I get so few contributions, I more and
more tend to adjust coding style on my own before commit, rather than to
bother the contributor.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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