Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 30 May 2003 15:49:12 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations. |
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On Fri, 30 May 2003, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > Talking about the code, there are still a bunch of files that uses spaces > with tabsize=4. Shouldn't those be reformatted with real TABs ? An emacs > lisp (indent+tabify) might do it pretty fast ...
I don't generally like changing syntactic stuff without a reason.
A good reason is when the original maintainer is not that active any more, and a new maintainer (or even just random fixer) feels that they need to run indent on the sources in order to make them more readable before doign a fix.
It happens, but not very often. Alan and Al both do it to the files they clean up. But I don't like having it done "just because" - there should be a real underlying reason.
Linus
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