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Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 14:07:58 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: Add ability to insert and delete lines
 to patch/file

On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:57:44 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 13:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue,  8 Jul 2014 10:53:36 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This can be valuable to insert or delete blank lines as well
> > > as fix misplaced brace or else uses.
> > 
> > hm, do we really want to go down this path?
> 
> Maybe, maybe not.
> 
> I've seen a lot of patches that people seem to spend
> time producing (frequently incorrectly done too) that
> could be better automated.
> 
> > It's a very long one and it leads to /usr/bin/indent?
> 
> For now, I think it's a pretty minimal bit of code.

No strong opinions here.

> I've suggested Lindent be removed from the tree.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/11/390

Maybe it's fixable, dunno - I don't recall ever seeing anyone get down
and poke at it.  Of course, indent itself is open source...

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