Re: Coding standards. (Was: Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block)

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 9 June 2003 11:07:32 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> You know why the code you reported is *wrong* (besides from how
> techincally do things) ? Mixing lower and upper case, using long variable
> and function names, etc... are simply a matter of personal taste and you
> cannot say that such code is "absolutely" wrong. The code is damn wrong
> because it violates about 25 sections of the project's defined CodingStyle
> document, that's why it is wrong.

Call it as you may.  Whether some style violates more sections of the
CodingStyle than exist in written form or it hurts the taste of 99% of
all developers ever having to tough it, my short form for that is "bad
style".

Point remains, there is a lot of "bad style" and inconsistency in the
kernel.  But fixing all of it and keeping it fixed would result in a
lot of work and maybe a couple of device drivers less.  For what gain?

Jörn

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Measure. Don't tune for speed until you've measured, and even then
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