On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 07/28/2015 08:00 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > >On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Matt Fleming wrote: > >>On Tue, 28 Jul, at 12:37:21PM, Lee Jones wrote: > >>> > >>>The driver shouldn't be called that either. > >>> > >>>You are the only one. What makes iTCO 'special'? > >> > >>I don't know, I didn't write it. It looks like Wim did ~9 years ago, so > >>it must have made sense to him at the time. > >> > > Coding style wasn't as strict then as it is today. iTCO has just been kept > for historic reasons. For sure, I get that, but it doesn't mean we can't do-the-right-thing (tm) now does it? > Sure, we could have changed it to lowercase, but so far no one bothered. > Plus, of course, there is always the element that some maintainers hate > that kind of cleanup, Really? Surely any kind of clean-up is good clean-up. Especially as Greg KH et. al, have been doing public presentations telling everyone that there is always kernel work for anyone who has the time; spelling corrections and all. > and patch submitters like Matt are stuck between > a rock and a hard place. Matt, Either do the 5min clean-up or don't, no biggy. If you don't then I can do it. At the very least please don't add any _new_ camel case variables or filenames. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
