Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265642AbUA0Tg6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:36:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265648AbUA0Tds (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:33:48 -0500 Received: from [195.23.16.24] ([195.23.16.24]:37579 "EHLO bipbip.comserver-pie.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265642AbUA0TcE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:32:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4016BC86.9020301@grupopie.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:31:18 +0000 From: Paulo Marques Organization: GrupoPIE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Weinehall Cc: "Joseph D. Wagner" , Andi Kleen , Rui Saraiva , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files References: <200401271251.34926.theman@josephdwagner.info> <20040127191358.GI20879@khan.acc.umu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1269 Lines: 37 David Weinehall wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:51:34PM -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote: > >>>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 >> > > Let me quote CodingStyle: > > "First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, > and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture." > > That's how much relevance GNU's coding standards have to the kernel. > And even if we did use GNU's coding standards (knock on wood :), where is the part that requires *trailing* spaces? Only in languages like "whitespace" ( http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ ) the trailing spaces have any meaning :) -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com "In a world without walls and fences who needs windows and gates?" - 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/