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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:34:17 -0800 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, devel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> Subject: Re: Tuxradar patching article and [PATCH] scripts/cvt_kernel_style.pl On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:41 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > I _really_ dislike automatic source conversions by a tool and do not > recommend doing that at all. On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 16:16 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > You take automatic conversions from tools like coccinelle all > > the time. > Those are sane, as they are tiny and obvious :) You contradict yourself. > It's the huge "reformat the whole file with indent" type stuff > that I object to. Which is sensible and not what you lead with. Any conversion done an automatic tool should be limited to a specific type of change and should not be done wholesale. Scripts like what I posted are easy to limit to specific types of conversion. Tools like Lindent are not. cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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