Re: [PATCH trivial] include/linux/gfp.h: Improve the coding styles

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On 2/26/16 00:07, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 06:26:31AM +0800, chengang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I do not want this patch to go through the trivial tree. It still adds
> another step to identifying relevant commits through git blame and has
> limited, if any, benefit to maintainability.
> 
>>   "it's preferable to preserve blame than go through a layer of cleanup
>>   when looking for the commit that defined particular flags".
>>
> 
> git blame identifies what commit last altered a line. If a cleanup patch
> is encountered then the tree before that commit needs to be examined
> which adds time. It's rare that cleanup patches on their own are useful
> and this is one of those cases.
> 

git is a tool mainly for analyzing code, but not mainly for normal
reading main code.

So for me, the coding styles need not consider about git.


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang (陈刚)

Managing Natural Environments is the Duty of Human Beings.

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