Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] CODING_STYLE: add memory management rules

[Avi Kivity]

 On 08/14/2010 12:01 AM, malc wrote:
> This is all perfectly reasonable, but begs one question, where do we stop
> codifying self-evident truths (or who is the ultimiate judge of what is
> self-evident and what isn't), since taking the above to extreme we will
> end up adding stuff like: you must use close to dispose of open-ed
> descriptors and such like.

It's a matter of pragmatism, if a lot of patches are routinely rejected 
due to some error then it makes sense to add it to CODING_STYLE, even if 
they are not exactly style decisions.  If not then they just dilute that 
document.

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