linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2]kernel: remove mess codes

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Message-ID: <4B258A27.3050006@goop.org>
Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:43:19 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
CC:	liu weni <qingshenlwy@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2]kernel: remove mess codes

On 12/13/09 16:33, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:04:48PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>    
>> On 12/12/09 22:55, liu weni wrote:
>>      
>>> I found some mess characters(0x0c) in the kernel source code.
>>> Then I suggest remove it.
>>>        
>> Those are form-feed characters.   Some editors use them to separate
>> logically distinct blocks of code into separate "pages".
>>      
> I can see their value in documentation, but I struggle to imagine
> their usefulness in code.
>    

I think a folding editor can fold them out, so you can just expand the 
area you're interested in.  Or something.  The point is that it is 
formatting that was presumably put there by the original author.  Unless 
they're actually upsetting something, I'd be inclined to leave them.

     J

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