netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:13:20 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, lvs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8

On Tue, 2018-07-24 at 14:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:13:25 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> > Almost all files in the kernel are either plain text or UTF-8
> > encoded. A couple however are ISO_8859-1, usually just a few
> > characters in a C comments, for historic reasons.
> > This converts them all to UTF-8 for consistency.
[]
> Will we be getting a checkpatch rule to keep things this way?

How would that be done?