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SubjectRe: kernel guide to space
Nice work - thanks.

A couple of possible additions:

* Keep lines within 80 columns.

* Be consistent in use of tabs versus spaces. If the
rest of a file is indented using tabs, then any change
you make should be indented the same way, not with
spaces. It is easy to unknowingly introduce spaces in
a patch by cutting and pasting something in one of the
many desktop UI environments that dont preserve tabs
across a cut and paste.

* See also Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt for
formatting the documentation for external functions
and data to work with the kernels DocBook automatically
extractable documentation.

* Multiline comments are shown as:

/*
* This is a big comment. It is full of sound
* and fury, signifying nothing. Now is the time
* for all good men to come to the aid of their
* country.
*/

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