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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	Alison Chaiken <alison@she-devel.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>,
	"Geyslan G . Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com>,
	Tiago Natel de Moura <tiago4orion@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/CodingStyle: Use directory-local variables for emacs settings
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 15:34:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190107153441.507affc0@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190107182019.105393-1-bvanassche@acm.org>

On Mon,  7 Jan 2019 10:20:19 -0800
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote:

> In emacs 23.1 support for directory-local variables was added (see also
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00000.html).
> Simplify the settings in coding-style.rst by using that feature.
> Additionally, do not inherit any settings from emacs' linux coding style
> to minimize dependencies on the version of emacs that is being used.
> 
> I have verified with several large and nontrivial kernel source files
> that the new settings format code according to what checkpatch expects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Alison Chaiken <alison@she-devel.com>
> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
> Cc: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tiago Natel de Moura <tiago4orion@gmail.com>

I've applied this (and I'm off to change my .emacs file).  Thanks!

jon

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-07 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-07 18:20 [PATCH v3] Documentation/CodingStyle: Use directory-local variables for emacs settings Bart Van Assche
2019-01-07 20:40 ` Joe Perches
2019-01-07 22:34 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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