Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Fix coding style

On 05/07/2012 10:06 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: Lucas De Marchi <redacted>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 16:49:16 -0300

quoted

Doing so also means we don't create our own rules and impose them on
others, like happened some time ago
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/16/473).

You conveniently forgot to show that Linus said that it's OK for a
subsystem maintainer to request that kind of coding style, it's just
not OK to impose it tree-wide.

Actually, checkpatch.pl does validate the rule being discussed here.
That could be regarded as imposing it. The SubmittingPatches document
states the following:

"At a minimum you should check your patches with the patch style
checker prior to submission (scripts/checkpatch.pl).  You should
be able to justify all violations that remain in your patch."

Gr. AvS