[kagia]

I doubt everyone agrees to that coding style, I certainly don't. However when submitting code to a project I'd still stick to the prescribed coding style, because I believe consistency in any code base can be just as important as any other measure of readability.

[snlacks]

I find it hard to agree with a lot of this, but it'd obviously be someone who's written a lot of code, thought a lot about how to write code, and reads a lot of code - even if we didn't know who it was. There's a lot to learn from reading stuff like this, if you take it all with a grain of salt... or if you're contributing.

[stinos]

This. It's easier to find lots of people who don't agree with a particular style (I agree with none but mine which is far, far away from the kernel one's for instance and much more readable of course, lol) than people who do, but worse is projects where styles are mixed. Or even tabs and spaces are mixed. Don't get started on that one :] (edit already happened in other comments, of course)

[andmarios]

I think it was written by Torvalds and other kernel hackers. It is part of the Linux source code, under the Documentation directory.