On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > These were changes that were necessary to make ipfw readable enough that
> > > > I could work with it in this area. They aren't just to clean it up, or
> > > > just for change's sake. They need to stay in.
> > >
> > > C'mon now, re-ording the lines is *certainly* not necessary to work.
> >
> > That's true. I sure didn't do that.
>
> Sure looks like you did. There are white-space and re-ordering
> modifications in the diffs you sent out. If you didn't do them, who
> did?
I refuse to justify putting variables in a function I changed in the
right place.
>
> > > *rant on*
> > > Brian, FreeBSD isn't your private playground for playing around, this is
> > > a group project, and you gotta follow the rules, or you don't get to
> > > play with the rest of the folks....
> >
> > The rules don't say "leave the code that you work with in a bigger mess than
> > when you started." Cleaning up code is a fact of life, and it _NEEDS_ to be
> > done to get work done, very often. You have to learn to deal with that.
>
> No, cleanups occur *separately* from code additions. The code is *very*
> readable now, and just because you have stylistic differences doesn't
> mean you get to change them because you like them.
Stylistic differences my ass. This module (ip_fw) breaks style(9) in so
many ways, it's not funny. It's sad.
>
> In particular, the changes I pointed out are not 'cleanups', but style
> changes.
When you make code readable, it's a cleanup.
>
> I repeat, this isn't your personal playground. Play by the rules or
> don't play at all.
"Follow KNF or stay out of the kernel code."
>
>
> Nate
>
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