From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262121AbVGVRvw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:51:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262122AbVGVRvw (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:51:52 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.192]:29791 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262121AbVGVRvv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:51:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Y57wjd3se+Y4VXeExHJo1fA7KOW64YQFMnBgxClL/wlwPt9T0xS1VyFYYx6Q13hDCqhY+dV8+WUHw+l0H1tOCmn46PLpHBgTPLBwJYXpi8gsJFQtoCJruWyvsSX8MC5G+1MoN/sDb2QOUyl8PZF0tpb6OLl7TwffvOloRrbPj4o= Message-ID: <9a87484905072210511ccf377f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:51:49 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: Patrick Draper Subject: Re: kernel guide to space Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <6981e08b050722101241ba2f3e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050711145616.GA22936@mellanox.co.il> <9a87484905072005596f2c2b51@mail.gmail.com> <6981e08b050722101241ba2f3e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/22/05, Patrick Draper wrote: > Why isn't a code formatting program used? There's scripts/Lindent (which is just a wrapper around indent with appropriate options. >People could write the code > as they like to write it, then format it automatically in a standard > way before it gets put into the kernel. > You can do some cleanup that way, but not everything, and then if people continue to write in their own FunkyStyle locally but what's in the kernel has been beautified they are going to have a hell of a time creating proper patches... It should just be cleaned up by whoever submits it before it gets merged (and if you want to let a tool help you out some of the way, then noone's stopping you). -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html