Re: [PATCH -mm] 1/2: MMCONFIG: validate against ACPI motherboard resources

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> This path adds validation of the MMCONFIG table against the ACPI reserved
>> motherboard resources.
> 
> Please fix the formatting of your code.
> 
> "for" and "if" are not functions, and they have a space before the 
> parenthesis.
> 
> And pretty much every single conditional in this patch is spread out over 
> two or more lines and has at least three different indentations. There's 
> something wrong here. Code can't look this bad and still be fine. Some of 
> this looks like random whitespace noise:
> 
> +               if(is_acpi_reserved(cfg->address,
> +                                   cfg->address + size - 1))
> +                       printk(KERN_NOTICE "PCI: MCFG area at %Lx reserved "
> +                               "in ACPI motherboard resources\n",
> +                               cfg->address);
> +               else {
> 
> That's just horrid. Please try to make the code _look_ nicer.

I'll try and fix up the formatting and repost this patch. I suspect some
of the issues are from the added code clashing with the way the existing
code was formatted.

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