Re: Coding Style Review and Automation

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 02:33:08PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi Oleksandr,
> 
> This morning, we had a discussion among maintainers, and the suggested
> approach moving forward is as follows:
> 
> - First, it would be helpful to see a sample of the proposed changes
>   applied to a single source file as an example. If you could provide
>   such a patch, it would help advance the discussion.
> 
> - If the changes are acceptable, we need to properly document the new
>   coding style in xen.git. If not, we will need to iterate again. We may
>   also need to add a "xen" template to clang-format.
> 
> - Once finalized, we will proceed by making changes to the Xen source
>   code piece by piece, as you suggested, rather than applying a single
>   large patch.

No objections, just wandering myself whether it was considered to
initially only apply the new style to new chunks of code?  Using
`git-clang-format` or similar as suggested by Anthony.

Is the adjusted style expected to be too different from the current
one as such approach would lead to hard to read code due to the mixed
styles?

Thanks, Roger.