Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] CODING_STYLE amendments

[Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, malc <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> While intentions of this are good, i believe this goes too far, i doubt
> that the proposed additions are enforcable and have no doubts that they
> will be widely ignored and at the same time provide more grounds for
> whining. Furthermore the existing code doesn't follow them, going out on
> a limb, it's more likely that one would look around the code he/she
> modifies and base his/her modifications on the surrounding code than to
> follow the style that conflicts with it.

The existing code that I have touched don't follow the current coding
style guidance, much less all the new recommendations being suggested.

Although, I do believe that this situation needs to change. If we
agree in a coding style, I would volunteer to be a some kind of
observer to fix and alert people about coding styles mistakes.

Regards,

Miguel