On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 07/28/2015 08:28 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > >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. > > > > Yes, really. Just try to submit cleanup patches to maintainers other than > Greg and myself, and you'll see. It is a minefield. Admittedly some of us have our quirks, but I'm happy to challenge anyone that won't accept clean-up patches that make things better. -- 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
