From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965669AbYD1Uvv (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933022AbYD1Uvk (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:51:40 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:56113 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765989AbYD1Uvk (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:51:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:51:39 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: Rogan Dawes Cc: apw@shadowen.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why these dot chars in scripts/checkpatch.pl? Message-Id: <20080428155139.d89e47d2.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <481637D7.8090000@dawes.za.net> References: <20080428153122.a94d21ba.pj@sgi.com> <481637D7.8090000@dawes.za.net> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rogan wrote: > Perhaps it is because checkpatch.pl is supposed to check *patches*, > which are typically indented by one character (+- )? You're a genius. It's an honor to be of the same species. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214