On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 15:55 -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > So, nack, don't start enforcing your own coding style and preferences in > checkpatch.pl.
Not just my opinion. https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/23/138 -------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:08:50 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds <> [] Another example of this is "sizeof". The kernel universally (I hope) has parenthesis around the sizeof argument, even though it's clearly not required by the C language. It's a coding standard. -------------------------------------------------------- cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/