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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reformat mtrr.c to conform to CodingStyle
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:30:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF28E0C.C32ACD63@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011112232539.A14409@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111130903350.16316-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20011114080505.A18098@weta.f00f.org> <3BF24AB2.1C8232C0@idb.hist.no>

Helge Hafting wrote:
> 
> Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> > If (at some point) people do want coding-style patches then there are
> > MANY places (eg. entire filesystem sub-trees) which could have
> > white-space alignment changes and similar things....
> 
> Creating lots of such patches looks like unnecessary work to me.
> Why not let Linus run Lindent on the whole tree and be done with it?
> find linux/ -name "*.[ch]" | linux/scripts/Lindent

Lindent still does a few dumb things which make me review the code after
formatting and before submission...

Also, Christoph Hellewig ported NetBSD's indent, which is supposedly a
bit better overall than GNU indent. Something else to look into.

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | Only so many songs can be sung
Building 1024    | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue.
MandrakeSoft     |         - nomeansno


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-14 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-13  4:25 [PATCH] reformat mtrr.c to conform to CodingStyle Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-13 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-11-13 19:05   ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-11-13 19:11     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-14 10:42     ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-14 15:30       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-11-14 16:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-13 19:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-13 19:18   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-11-13 19:21   ` Momchil Velikov
2001-11-13 19:21   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-14  7:57   ` David Weinehall
2001-11-14  8:04     ` David S. Miller
2001-11-14  8:15     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-20  8:47     ` Mark van Walraven
2001-11-20  9:52       ` David Weinehall

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