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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:11:54 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] reformat mtrr.c to conform to CodingStyle
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:04:33AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>     I don't like reformatting without at least asking the maintainer,
>     unless the maintainer isn't doing maintenance. Also, right now I'd
>     rather not have any big patches even if they are just
>     syntactic.. Makes hand-over to Marcelo simpler.
> 
> If (at some point) people do want coding-style patches then there are
> MANY places (eg. entire filesystem sub-trees) which could have
> white-space alignment changes and similar things....


True.  For mtrr.c it (a) is unmaintained for years, and (b) is actively
being hacked on by non-maintainers.

It has an especially strong case for Lindent'ing.

	Jeff


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