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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for r6040 NIC |
Date: | Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:23:09 -0500 |
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On 08/31/2011 02:12 PM, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:48:34PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:etc, etc. IMO, those bring codingstyle issues into the pretty much neglectable space.I don't think we lack contributors. Documentation and tests are really about discipline. If we can't even be bothered to maintain consistency in variable naming, do you really expected that we can be disciplined in writing documentation and tests?Yes I do. It's not white and black, it's not about making the code completely inconsistent or 100 consistent. It's about find a level of consistency that is acceptable and doesn't cost too much to maintain.
I actually agree. I don't like the idea of absolutely enforcing a coding style that demands no white space at the end of a line (if you can't see it, why in the world would you care?).
But coding style deviations that make the code look foreign, like using CamelCase for field names, seems important to me.
And I respect that other things seem important to other people (even invisible things like trailing white space). So even though I wouldn't want to reject a patch because of coding style in some cases, I think it's important that we do our best to enforce it.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
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