From: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
       =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: "Steven Cole" <elenstev@mesatop.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations.
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 00:08:32 +0100
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Hi Linus.

 > The motivation for doing the ANSI-fication is just that there
 > is now a sanity checker tool that will complain loudly about
 > bad typing, and since I wrote it and I hate old-style K&R
 > sources, it doesn't parse them. 

Probably the simplest solution is to make the said tool recognise
a line like...

	#pragma KandR

...and have it abort any file where it finds that line with some
sort of warning, perhaps along the lines of...

	SanityCheck: Found K&R pragma, ignoring kernel/foobar.c

...or something similar. It would then be simply a case of adding
the said line near the top of whichever source files are still in
K&R format.

Best wishes from Riley.
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