From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754542AbcL0VPZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:15:25 -0500 Received: from matrix.voodoobox.net ([75.127.97.206]:56368 "EHLO voodoobox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752216AbcL0VPV (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:15:21 -0500 Message-ID: <1482873302.20986.2.camel@dillow-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com> Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] drivers: net: ethernet: 3com: fix return value From: David Dillow To: Thomas Preisner Cc: sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@i4.cs.fau.de, milan.stephan+linux@fau.de Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:15:02 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1482625822-19658-1-git-send-email-thomas.preisner+linux@fau.de> References: <4200be74-f7e7-db6b-a258-8fd178fef369@cogentembedded.com> <1482625822-19658-1-git-send-email-thomas.preisner+linux@fau.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2016-12-25 at 01:30 +0100, Thomas Preisner wrote: > Those spaces were actually left out purposely: The file in question (typhoon.c) > is missing those spaces between the statements (if, for, while) and the > following opening bracket pretty much always (except 2-3 times) and we figured > that it might be better to keep the coding style consistent since this might > aswell have been intended by the original author. I'm not sure if we had the rule back then, or if I just missed it. Either way, we should follow the rules for new code if we can. I'm not sure it's worth fixing all of the instances -- usually formatting-only changes are not worth the churn -- but I don't have a strong opinion on the matter.