Re: [PATCH] x86: Switch apm to unlocked_kernel
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri May 23 2008 - 13:26:58 EST
On Fri, 23 May 2008 23:23:39 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2008 12:06:17 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Andrew shouts at me if I send him patches that don't fix the style of
> > the lines around so you get some style changes even when I cut bits out
> > of diffs.
Don't think so. Unrelated changes are well-known poor-form.
I do think that if one is already changing a line which is incorrectly
laid out then there's no point in _leaving_ it incorrect. There's no
downside to fixing it.
That being said, it's often sorely tempting to go hunting down nearby
sillinesses. I succumb to that temptation and usually won't complain
when others do also, up to a point.
> I think that approach is *stupid* too and style should be done
> > after for the entire file.
>
> Then let the maintainer (nominally me) shout at Andrew. I don't agree
> with those style changes and we usually leave such purely stylistic
> things to the maintainer of the file in question.
mm, not really. Wrong is wrong and if nominal maintainer insists on
retaining wrong we have cheery bunfights about it.
> If Andrew requires
> these changes, then Andrew is wrong about this. It just confuses the
> real changes and adds to the overheads of those trying to do reviews (of
> which we have too few).
I think those changes went above and beyond the call.
> And in this case "fix" is in the eye of the
> beholder.
And that is why we have a standard - so that different parts of the
kernel do not end up having different appearance due to local
preferences.
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