linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][Trivial][resend] Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file to files lacking one

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1207202310390.21929@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:11:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][Trivial][resend] Documentation: Add newline at end-of-file
 to files lacking one 

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> This patch simply adds a newline character at end-of-file to those
> files in Documentation/ that currently lack one.
> 
> This is done for a few different reasons:
> 
> A) It's rather annoying when you do "cat some_file.txt" that your
>    prompt/cursor ends up at the end of the last line of output rather
>    than on a new line.
> 
> B) Some tools that process files line-by-line may get confused by the
>    lack of a newline on the last line.
> 
> C) The "\ No newline at end of file" line in diffs annoys me for some
>    reason.
> 
> So, let's just add the missing newline once and for all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>

Queued for 3.6, thanks Jesper.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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