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Date:   Mon, 7 Jan 2019 15:34:41 -0700
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
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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