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Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:07:37 +0100
From:   Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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Hi Dan,

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:27:32 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:13:15PM +0100, Armando Miraglia wrote:
> > Is there an explicit intent to deprecate Lindent in favor of checkpatch.pl
> > --fix? If one would like to contribute to fixing the tooling for linting which
> > of the two would be the right target for such an effort?
> 
> I've added Jean to the CC list because he worked on Lindent a few
> years ago.  I really think we should just delete Lindent.  I haven't
> used the checkpatch.pl --fix option but Joe Perches has good style.

I merely fixed obvious but minor issues in Lindent as I stumbled upon
them the one time in my life I used that script. That was years ago.
I'm not using it on a regular basis. My principle is that if a script
is present in the kernel tree then it can and should be maintained. If
it is deemed not worth the maintenance effort then it should be
deleted. I don't care either way.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support