Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263002AbUA0PpI (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:45:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264476AbUA0PpI (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:45:08 -0500 Received: from joel.ist.utl.pt ([193.136.198.171]:13251 "EHLO joel.ist.utl.pt") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263002AbUA0PpF (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:45:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:44:56 +0000 (WET) From: Rui Saraiva To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 714 Lines: 24 Hello, It seems that many files [1] in the Linux source have lines with trailing blank (space and tab) characters and some even have formfeed characters. Obviously these blank characters aren't necessary. I wonder if it is a waste of time to send patches that clean the source? Those patches will only remove those trailing blank characters and will be splitted by maintainer. Regards, Rui Saraiva [1] > grep -lR "[[:blank:]]$" /usr/src/linux/ | wc -l 8163 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/