> On May 9, 2022, at 3:32 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> +It is convenient to instruct editors/IDEs to format while typing, >> +when saving or at commit time. However, if for some reason reformatting >> +the entire kernel Rust sources is needed at some point, the following can be >> +run:: >> + >> + make LLVM=1 rustfmt > > I will ask whether we want this, though. Why would anybody want to > mass-reformat the entire body of kernel code? This seems like something > that would generate an endless stream of "helpful" patches and a lot of > churn. That would only happen if the code diverged from rustfmt’s output in the first place. Generally, in Rust projects, the source tree is always kept formatted with rustfmt - so running `make LLVM=1 rustfmt` would only ever touch code that you’d just changed. Gaelan
