Joe Perches wrote, On 12/05/2009 06:50 PM:

On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 07:43 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:

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Joe Perches wrote:

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On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:10 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:

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Joe Perches wrote:

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Only files where David Miller is the primary git-signer.
wireless, wimax, ixgbe, etc are not modified.

What's the point? Having them at the beginning of the next line is
easier to read from my point of view.

It's just a stupid consistency thing.

Joe *agrees* that
having them on the beginning of the line is preferred.

This is not true.

I prefer code that I write for myself to
use leading continuation tests.

For the Linux code, as should be obvious
from the patches I submit, I prefer to
have adherence to one predominant majority
style.  I don't much care what form that
style actually takes.

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Thousands of
contributors throughout the tree agree.
This is entirely a Miller thing.

Nope.  There have been many efforts to
help standardize on single form styles.

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My main objection to these sweeping patches is that it makes it much
more difficult to maintain and apply patches across different versions of
the tree.

I think you underestimate the value of
standardization and overestimate the
quantity of work to sort it out for
the -stable versions.

Actually, technically, legally etc. (except practically) William is right:
if it's not in the CodingStyle, and not obviously wrong, it shouldn't be
forced.

Jarek P.