Subject: re: KNF (was DRM on 4.99.42 i386)
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/21/2007 09:22:35
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:03:36PM -0500, Matthew Mondor wrote:
>
> Has the stance of the project changed according to
> /usr/share/misc/style, or is it common practice to later on audit and
> fix formatting?
>
No. Files committed to the repository must be formatted to KNF, there
should be no reason to commit code that is not KNF and "fix it up"
later. That is wrong.
however, if the code is 3rd party then it should NOT be changed.
that way just leads to maintenence headaches for the future.
.mrg.