Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.06

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Fri Jun 22 2007 - 15:17:06 EST


On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:02:10AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 12:54 -0500, Joel Schopp wrote:
> > If it is "kinda like a mini function" why not make it "actually a mini
> > function" and call it?
>
> Several of our on-disk filesystems have an ioctl function that already
> has indented goto labels. I don't think it's quite worth churning all
> of these (working) filesystems to make a style checker happy.

It's not just the on-disk filesystem code. There are examples of both
styles of indentation many other parts of the kernel as well.

- Ted
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