On 01/25/2013 04:11 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 25.01.2013 10:56, schrieb Alexander Graf:
>>
>> Am 25.01.2013 um 10:47 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>:
>>
>>> Am 25.01.2013 00:04, schrieb Jesse Larrew:
>>>>
>>>> Reformat the option parsing code in main() and various supporting functions
>>>> to conform to the QEMU coding style.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Larrew <jlar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> vl.c | 476 
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
>>>> 1 file changed, 260 insertions(+), 216 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> On a brief look this doesn't look wrong. What is the purpose of this
>>> patch though? Is it intended for the s390x SCLP patch to be rebased
>>> upon, or is it preparing some other actual refactoring or addition?
>>> We don't usually do pure Coding Style refactorings without follow-ups.
>>
>> We only don't do it because nobody wanted to sit down and actually convert 
>> the code to adhere to the "new" coding style guidelines.
> 
> That's not true. Pure Coding Style refactorings have been rejected in
> the past for unnecessarily clobbering git-blame history, therefore my
> question.
> 

I don't have any specific follow-up patches planned. I was just looking to
pick some low-hanging fruit in order to familiarize myself with the code
base. I hadn't considered the impact on git-blame history though. I can
hang on to this patch until I have a real reason to edit vl.c, if that
would be easier.

Thanks for the review!

>> I think it's a great idea to fix vl.c's coding style once and for all.
> 
> No objection here. I also need to do some reindentations for my CPUState
> refactorings that I could send out.
> 
> Andreas
> 

Jesse Larrew
Software Engineer, KVM Team
IBM Linux Technology Center
Phone: (512) 973-2052 (T/L: 363-2052)
jlar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com


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