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On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:24:12 -0700 josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> > If your biggest hangup as a maintainer is that people send you patches
> > that don't have variables sorted in some particular order, perhaps you
> > should get out of kernel development and get into bike shed colorimetry
> > consulting.  We have enough problems getting quality patches by the
> > metrics that *actually* correlate to quality.  And as others have
> > pointed out in this thread, many people produce patches across numerous
> > subsystems.
> 
> I personally don't have any issue with my own idiosyncrasies not being
> met. They are usually minor, and I'll fix up the patch (and document it
> in the change log). These minor idiosyncrasies make maintaining code
> easier.

That's perfectly reasonable.  If you want to take the time making the
code in your area conform to additional requirements above and beyond
those of the kernel as a whole, go for it.  I appreciate that you don't
ask others to do it for you.

- Josh Triplett