Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 10:15:45 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm 00/02] update to Document futex PI design |
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On Sat, 13 May 2006 13:07:46 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 May 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 May 2006 09:27:48 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > > > > Andrew, > > > > > > The following two patches update the rt-mutex-design.txt document. > > > > > > The first one simply removes all the tabs that I had in that document. > > > Since it's a document and not code, tabs are not really appropiate. > > > > I think that lots of people would not agree with that sentiment. > > Documentation/*.txt has approximately 8800 lines with tabs in them > > (just top-level Doc/*.txt, not sub-directories). > > Yeah, but I have few ascii art graphs, as well as notes and points, that > would look funny if you don't have 8 character tabs.
OK, spaces do make sense for that IMO. But tabs are perfectly fine in text indentations.
> But If the standand is to have tabs, then I would convert all 8 > consecutive spaces to use tabs. But the original document had a mix of > tabs and spaces that just looked horrible on different editors. So I > decided to use spaces since that is more consistent, in the look.
Sure, mixing is often ugly/bad.
> But if this is not the norm, I'll supply a patch, otherwise I'll let it > be.
Who can answer that?
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