Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264598AbUA0Swj (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:52:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264881AbUA0Swi (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:52:38 -0500 Received: from ssa8.serverconfig.com ([209.51.129.179]:18145 "EHLO ssa8.serverconfig.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264598AbUA0Swe (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:52:34 -0500 From: "Joseph D. Wagner" To: Andi Kleen , Rui Saraiva Subject: Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:51:34 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401271251.34926.theman@josephdwagner.info> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ssa8.serverconfig.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - josephdwagner.info Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 565 Lines: 14 > 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. Actually, they are necessary. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_23.html http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_24.html - 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/