[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] arm: cortexa9: adding support for TI OMAP4430 SDP

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jun 7 22:05:08 CEST 2010


Dear "V, Aneesh",

In message <FF55437E1F14DA4BAEB721A458B6701706BD8CC798 at dbde02.ent.ti.com> you wrote:
> 
> > And: no spaces after function names please (fix globally!).
> 
> But how about this rule mentioned in your wiki: 
> 
> "All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel coding styl
> e; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script "scripts/Lindent
> " in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources originating from U-Boot
>  a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding spaces before parameters t
> o function calls) is actually used."

[Could you please restrict your ine length to some 70 characters or
so? Thanks!]

> http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/CodingStyle
> 
> In fact, I didn't add spaces initially. They got added when I ran "Lindent
> -pcs". Is this rule not applicable anymore? Or am I missing something?

Thais was written some time ago by me, and nobody cared to fix it yet.
Having the spaces was (and is) my ownporeferred style, but I got
overruled by a vast majority...

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:wd at denx.de]
> > Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 1:25 AM
> > To: V, Aneesh
> > Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; olbpdev at list.ti.com - OMAP Linux Baseport
> > Development Team (May contain non-TIers)
> > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] arm: cortexa9: adding support for TI
> > OMAP4430 SDP
> > 
> > Dear Aneesh V,

And please don;t top-post / full quote; please see
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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