it's certainly acceptable as newly introduced code but only borderline
better than the original code. I'd suggest to stick to the problem areas
that checkpatch.pl complains about at the moment - we have really
obvious bad looking pieces of code that checkpatch.pl reports, and going
after the borderline cases will only result in coding-style lawyering
and flamewars, not any genuine increase in code quality ;-)
for example:
arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c:
total: 19 errors, 2 warnings, 98 lines checked
or:
arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:
total: 56 errors, 31 warnings, 2402 lines checked
and once we have nothing but the borderline cases and if we get really
bored we can start coding style flamewars ;-)
Ingo
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