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    SubjectRe: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files
    On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:13:58 +0100 David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> wrote:

    | On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:51:34PM -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
    | > > It seems that many files [1] in the Linux source have lines with
    | > > trailing blank (space and tab) characters and some even have formfeed
    | > > characters. Obviously these blank characters aren't necessary.
    | >
    | > Actually, they are necessary.
    | >
    | > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_23.html
    | > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_24.html
    |
    | Let me quote CodingStyle:
    |
    | "First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards,
    | and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture."
    |
    | That's how much relevance GNU's coding standards have to the kernel.

    Thank you, I had forgotten that one and I was wondering what the
    heck those web pages had to do with anything (kernel).

    So please don't bother with just whitespace changes unless you
    are going to cleanup a <driver | fs | module | etc> completely.

    --
    ~Randy
    kernel-janitors project: http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
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