On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> Linux maintainers will enforce \t "being"[1] 8, and will also enforce
> the 80-column limit[2].
Heh. Actually, Linux maintainers have generally very consciously _avoided_
trying to "enforce" coding style issues.
We encourage. Sometimes people actually end up running "lindent" on code
and enforce the rules through that, but that is actually fairly rare, and
most of the time that happens only when somebody decides to tackle some
subsystem that hasn't effectively been maintained in a while, and in order
to do cleanups, the person needs to just make it readable first.
Is that the _onbly_ case when we do that? No. There's the occasional
Lindent run done randomly, usually brought on by something _really_
atrocious, but I would say that generally we try to keep code churn due to
_just_ coding style issues to a minimum.
I do sometimes end up not taking *new* code if it is really really ugly.
So it definitely happens. But...
Linus
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