[ofa-general] Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

Krzysztof Halasa khc at pm.waw.pl
Thu Feb 21 18:23:45 PST 2008


Al Viro <viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk> writes:

> ... if your style is lousy.  I agree that situation with printks is
> not normal in that respect and I certainly have no love for the
> checkpatch nonsense, but pressure to keep the fucking nesting depth
> low is a Good Thing(tm).

Indeed. Unfortunately it is orthogonal to the line length limit.

We should limit the nesting level, though I think there is no
universally good value. What is good for one case (a function with a
short multi-level if/for/etc) is bad for another (a long switch()
where any added complexity makes it unparseable).

So I think it just have to meet the author's and reviewers' taste. We
already depend on this.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa



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