From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org [140.211.169.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41ZrNG595ZzDrGC for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:00:14 +1000 (AEST) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:00:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Joe Perches , Samuel Ortiz , "David S. Miller" , Rob Herring , Michael Ellerman , Jonathan Cameron , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 Message-Id: <20180724140010.e24a9964fd340afe2d98a994@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180724111600.4158975-1-arnd@arndb.de> References: <20180724111600.4158975-1-arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8 > encoded. A couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few > characters in a C comments, for historic reasons. > > This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency. Was "consistency" the only rationale? The discussion is now outside my memory horizon but I thought there were other reasons. Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?