On 24/09/16 20:21, SF Markus Elfring wrote: >> I'm not necessarily against this change which does perhaps clarify the code >> ever so slightly, > > Thanks for another bit of positive feedback. > > >> but I am interested to know where 'current Linux coding style convention' >> comes from? > > How often do you check the status of a document like "CodingStyle" for > example? ;-) Every time I see a patch doing a style change I don't remember being there last time I looked ;)
I'm not seeing this one in there. Which tool is spitting it out? Or is the test yours? > > How do you think about information from a commit like > "docs: Remove space-before-label guidance from CodingStyle" (on 2016-09-21)? > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/Documentation/CodingStyle?id=79c70c304b0b443429b2a0019518532c5162817a Yeah, I saw the discussion / flame war that resulted in that revert... > > Regards, > Markus >
