Re: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations.

viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Fri, 30 May 2003 23:55:04 +0100


On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >
> > Talking about the code, there are still a bunch of files that uses spaces
> > with tabsize=4. Shouldn't those be reformatted with real TABs ? An emacs
> > lisp (indent+tabify) might do it pretty fast ...
>
> I don't generally like changing syntactic stuff without a reason.
>
> A good reason is when the original maintainer is not that active any more,
> and a new maintainer (or even just random fixer) feels that they need to
> run indent on the sources in order to make them more readable before
> doign a fix.
>
> It happens, but not very often. Alan and Al both do it to the files they
> clean up. But I don't like having it done "just because" - there should be
> a real underlying reason.

FWIW, I'd ran Lindent maybe 10 times or so - only in truly appalling cases
when it hurts just looking at the code (drivers/block/paride, mostly - just
take a look at it in 2.4). Usually it's more of "I change that function;
might as well reindent it" and it's done manually.
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