Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755959AbZLNBTl (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:19:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754046AbZLNBTk (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:19:40 -0500 Received: from xenotime.net ([72.52.64.118]:37303 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753988AbZLNBTj (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:19:39 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:19:44 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Simon Horman , liu weni , linux-kernel , Toralf =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=F6rs?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ter?= Subject: Re: [PATCH v2]kernel: remove mess codes Message-Id: <20091213171944.a1ef2af0.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <4B258A27.3050006@goop.org> References: <4B249210.7060103@goop.org> <20091214003320.GA29218@verge.net.au> <4B258A27.3050006@goop.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1257 Lines: 32 On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:43:19 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 12/13/09 16:33, Simon Horman wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:04:48PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > >> On 12/12/09 22:55, liu weni wrote: > >> > >>> I found some mess characters(0x0c) in the kernel source code. > >>> Then I suggest remove it. > >>> > >> Those are form-feed characters. Some editors use them to separate > >> logically distinct blocks of code into separate "pages". > >> > > I can see their value in documentation, but I struggle to imagine > > their usefulness in code. > > > > I think a folding editor can fold them out, so you can just expand the > area you're interested in. Or something. The point is that it is > formatting that was presumably put there by the original author. Unless > they're actually upsetting something, I'd be inclined to leave them. and if someone prints them on paper, the form-feed character will cause a, uh, form feed (new page). --- ~Randy -- 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/