From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761653AbYDNPIX (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754178AbYDNPIP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:15 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:22328 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753776AbYDNPIP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:15 -0400 Message-ID: <48037315.6080305@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:07:01 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Corbet CC: Dmitri Vorobiev , Al Viro , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt References: <28421.1208181120@vena.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <28421.1208181120@vena.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > >> Offhand, it seems that the double spacing convention is being currently used >> in a more or less consistent manner throughout Linux docs. It also seems to >> me that this can be made a requirement and documented somewhere. > > Double spacing is my preference, and I appreciate your sending a new > patch which doesn't take that out. > > But *please* let's not try to make "requirements" along those lines. If > somebody's going to go to the trouble to write some documentation, I > don't think we really want people bouncing it back to them with 100 > "single space after period" errors from checkpatch.pl... Big Ack on that. -- ~Randy