Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

Alan Cox
2007-06-07T22:16:24Z

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:32:29 +0200
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:05:07AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >...
> > - Source files should be 7bit ASCII and Documentation/Kbuild
> > files/etc should be UTF-8, test that the patch honors that and doesn't
> > put something else in (cleanups that remove 8bit ASCII etc from a
> > source file is OK though).
> >...
>
> That's wrong:
> Code must be 7bit ASCII.
> Comments in source files can be UTF-8.

Also there is no such thing as 8bit ASCII.