Re: [kbuild-devel] [PATCH 08/19] scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines

[Oleg Verych]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:19:59AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
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> > So, there are some new scripts. What if my proposition will be better,
> > so to speak? Any problems i'm willing to fix/enhance.
> > 
> > Note: only one copy of the file required. Sym-linked name *diff* or
> > *patch* will process patches. I know, that symlinks in sources isn't
> > good, thus change "$0" -> "$1" will process first parameter.
> 
> Sorry - but I really do not get your point here.
> Are you trying to say that current cleanpatch is not good enough
> or do you propose a new script to do something similar?

Better means, less bloated scripts in the source tree to make
userspace suck less...

> We do not want everyones favorite patch preprocessing script
> in the kernel. So the only option is to incorporate changes in
> cleanpatch.

I don't see scripts/clean* in .21, so decided, to make a hopefully
better, nicer unix-way and posix re-write, this morning.
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