On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 05:36 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:

Over the past several days, David Miller (with help from Joe Perches)
made sweeping changes to the format of conditional statements in the
net tree -- the equivalent of mass patches that change spaces.
This makes writing patches for multiple versions of the tree very
difficult, and will make future pullups problematic.

If it makes getting tcp cookies accepted difficult,
a reversion is simple.  That style isn't as important.

I think writing a single set of patches for multiple
versions of linux is not feasible.  Feature changes
occur in kernel source daily.

	if (condition
	    && condition
	    && (condition
	        || condition
	        || condition)) {

The above is my personally preferred style.

	if (condition &&
             condition && (condition || condition ||
	    condition)) {

Except for the odd spacing, this is the significant
majority of net/ style.

The leading style was < 10%.  It's less now.

Miller (with Perches) changed hundreds (thousands?) of these to
trailing form.  This results in a number of hilarious examples --
lines with both leading and trailing, lines with only &&, etc.

Nearly all existing.