> I don't have a problem removing the empty lines, but is there some > guideline on that > which I'm ignoring and should know? Not in general - mostly its people inventing style. There's a lot to be said for consistency in spacing but quite frankly people worrying about it could spend their time more usefully on fixing actual bugs and really ugly code of which the kernel still has a plentiful supply. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html