linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: Attempt to address style issues in spi-mt7621.c

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Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:50:48 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     Armando Miraglia <arma2ff0@...il.com>, neil@...wn.name,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        sankalpnegi2310@...il.com, matthias.bgg@...il.com, sr@...x.de,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: mediatek: Attempt to address style issues in
 spi-mt7621.c

On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 15:07 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> My principle is that if a script
> is present in the kernel tree then it can and should be maintained. If
> it is deemed not worth the maintenance effort then it should be
> deleted.

I've suggested deleting Lindent in the past.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/11/390

Also there is now the clang-format tool that
does an OK job of reflowing source to something
approximating the typical kernel style.

See:  Documentation/process/clang-format.rst