On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:09:53PM -0700, Bill Stouder-Studenmund wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:38:26PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Jason Thorpe > > <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost> wrote: > > >> Therefore, question is why so many style breakages in the core kernel > > >> code? > > > A lot of that core kernel code predates the C99 types. > > Ok, why _still_ the 40% in sys/arch has the obsoleted style? I can > > understand 3rd party code which can't be so big. > > Others have described why, but the key issue is that we consider changing > code to have a cost. The cost is small, and never enough to block features > or bug fixes. It mainly is a maintenance cost. Every branch has to either ...[snip]... I've seen this question come up several times. Can you perhaps take your explanation and drop it at the stop of share/misc/style so people know when the style should be applied? eric
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