[Gluster-devel] Coding style and checkpatch.pl

[Jeff Darcy]

> > - New changes coming in should adhere to that.
> > - Old changes if they are there and let them be.
> 
> 
> Maybe the first change we should make is to prevent
> the script from flagging errors in the surrounding
> context (i.e. code which was already there).


OK, scratch that part.  It already seems to do this when
running normally; I must have seen errors in context 
because I was running it by hand after it already
complained.  Note that you can still get flagged for
following the current style in a function, though.