From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755497Ab2DQPlm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:41:42 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:50565 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753487Ab2DQPll (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:41:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4F8D8F2D.7030704@landley.net> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:41:33 -0500 From: Rob Landley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , trivial@kernel.org, kjsisson@bellsouth.net, Ben Dooks , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Ben Dooks , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Andy Lutomirski , "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Josua Dietze , Andiry Xu , Matthew Garrett , Sarah Sharp , Andrew Morton , Mike Frysinger , Michael Hennerich , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Trivial] Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking one References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/16/2012 04:35 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote: > This patch simply adds a newline character at end-of-file to those > files in Documentation/ that currently lack one. > > This is done for a few different reasons: > > A) It's rather annoying when you do "cat some_file.txt" that your > prompt/cursor ends up at the end of the last line of output rather > than on a new line. > > B) Some tools that process files line-by-line may get confused by the > lack of a newline on the last line. > > C) The "\ No newline at end of file" line in diffs annoys me for some > reason. > > So, let's just add the missing newline once and for all. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Acked-by: Rob Landley Rob -- GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code. Either it's "mere aggregation", or a license violation. Pick one.