Re: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations.

[Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Gwe, 2003-05-30 at 23:39, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > Talking about the code, there are still a bunch of files that uses spaces
> > with tabsize=4. Shouldn't those be reformatted with real TABs ? An emacs
> > lisp (indent+tabify) might do it pretty fast ...
>
> indent -kr -i8 -bri0 -l255
>
> seems to do the job even faster. I did a pile of the scsi drivers when I
> went over them. The big thing is not to mix indent with real changes.
> Its always a temptation but its vital that there are no outstanding
> changes and that a patch exists where you can test before and after
> indent to verify that change didnt cause the problems

GNU indent was broken last time I tried. When I was using it I was forced
to put its *DO NO INDENT* macros to prevent it to screwing up the code in
few places. Maybe they fixed it ...



- Davide

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