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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: raven@themaw.net, torvalds@osdl.org, ULMO@Q.NET,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up fs/devfs/base.c
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:30:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031224103016.37cf5ea3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031224171054.GB29796@kroah.com>

Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 12:00:13PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:38:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Now would be a good time for someone to feed the whole thing through indent
> > > > though.
> > >
> > > As much as I enjoy using the devfs code as my "bad coding style"
> > > example, here's a patch against 2.6.0 that cleans up the devfs code to
> > > follow the proper kernel coding style.
> > 
> > I think it needs a little bit more than that Greg.
> 
> Oh, I know it does.  That was just a "convert to proper coding format in
> 15 minutes" patch.  You should start with that and work from there.
> But, if you are going to do this, remember to submit in incremental
> changes.  I suggest this patch go in, as it is just a reformatting,
> nothing else.  Then you can work from there, changing the actual logic
> of the code.

Yup, just whitespace fixes please.  I don't think I have the energy for a
big cleanup exercise right now, and it's not really appropriate.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-24 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20031224034110.GA25709@kroah.com>
2003-12-24  4:00 ` [PATCH] clean up fs/devfs/base.c Ian Kent
2003-12-24 17:10   ` Greg KH
2003-12-24 18:30     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-12-25  4:07       ` Ian Kent
2003-12-26  3:12       ` Ian Kent
2003-12-27 11:19         ` Ian Kent
2003-12-25  3:51     ` Ian Kent

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