Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Document Qemu coding style

[M. Warner Losh]

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            address@hidden (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:28:54PM +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
: > I'd remove this, braces are not used consistently for one statement blocks.
: 
: Then fix that.  Making the coding style worse just because some people
: have failed to follow it is not the right solution.
: 
: > No, this is the K&R style. Quoting linux/Documentation/CodingStyle:
: > 
: > Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency
: > is ...  well ...  inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that
: > (a) K&R are _right_ and (b) K&R are right.  Besides, functions are
: > special anyway (you can't nest them in C).
: 
: And Linus is wrong for not requiring braces at all times in the kernel. :)
: I don't have much hope of convincing him of that, but he is still wrong.

And this is an example of the religious nature of this argument :)

Warner