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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvt_fallthrough: A tool to convert /* fallthrough */ comments to fallthrough;
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 00:46:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6773b7e3-8ce4-55d1-8bb7-bde6d9f6e887@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4304de54a44b7c8c22d8c2d9249d716664cf5ce8.camel@perches.com>



On 3/7/20 21:01, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-03-07 at 15:30 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Some people consistently add blank lines as part of their code style,
>> and if I were
>> one of those people, I wouldn't like to have such lines removed.
> 
> It's a patch generator, it's not perfect.
> Nothing is nor ever will be.

Wise words. The thing is that this is feedback over a proposed
patch.

> It's quite simple to add blank lines if that's
> what any maintainer desires.
> 

I'm not sure if you are saying that it's not a problem to
update your proposed patch, or if you are suggesting that
the maintainers will have the predisposition of applying
patches that will modify their coding style and then go and
willingly fix that. I doubt the latter, though.

--
Gustavo

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-08  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-20 20:30 [PATCH] cvt_fallthrough: A tool to convert /* fallthrough */ comments to fallthrough; Joe Perches
2020-02-21  0:21 ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-21  2:24   ` Joe Perches
2020-03-09 19:36   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-03-09 19:55     ` Joe Perches
2020-03-07 21:30 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-08  3:01   ` Joe Perches
2020-03-08  6:46     ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2020-03-08  7:02       ` Joe Perches
2020-03-08  7:11         ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-08  8:58           ` Joe Perches
2020-03-08 19:14             ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-08 19:44               ` Joe Perches
2020-03-08 22:04                 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-03-08 22:05                   ` Joe Perches

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