On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:07:16AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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.
>...
But the last issue (characters that are not UTF-8) should be fixed.
> ~Randy
cu
Adrian
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