Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:18:24 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files |
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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.
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