Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] CODING_STYLE amendments

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 08/23/2010 02:01 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  writes:
>
>>   On 08/22/2010 07:40 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>> I totally agree with Markus
>>> that it seems like wasted effort to come up with new tools and having to
>>> maintain them when there are good ones out there like the ones from the
>>> Linux kernel.
>>>
>> scripts/Lindent is just a wrapper around indent(1).  We don't need to
>> come up with new tools, just come up with the right switches to
>> indent(1).
> How can indent help effectively with policing the formatting of new
> code, in the form of patches, without touching the old code?

It can't.  We need something like checkpatch (but not checkpatch itself, 
that's much too whiny).

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