On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:56:02 -0400 (EDT) John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > I just did a grep for end-of-line whitespace in the 2.6.21-rc6-git2 tree > and it found 55,256 lines with it. I was also going to look for > space-instead-of-tabs and some other things, but that result surprised me. > I also did a wc -L on the tree, and in addition to finding 10,819 files > with at least one line width 80 or greater, I got a whole lot of "Invalid > or incomplete multibyte or wide character" messages. > > Should I start submitting patches to maintainers, or would I just be > wasting everybody's time? Just wasting time for you and maintainers. If there are real patches being made at those lines, the whitespace or line width should be cleaned up also. > (I do appreciate the help everybody's been giving me on this and other > kernel lists. I know it must get tiresome to deal with new people like me > so often, but your assistance is really helping me pick it up faster than > I would on my own, especially with my time limited by a full-time job.) --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
