Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:16:45 +1100 | From | Simon Horman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2]kernel: remove mess codes |
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On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 04:43:19PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 12/13/09 16:33, Simon Horman wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:04:48PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >>On 12/12/09 22:55, liu weni wrote: > >>>I found some mess characters(0x0c) in the kernel source code. > >>>Then I suggest remove it. > >>Those are form-feed characters. Some editors use them to separate > >>logically distinct blocks of code into separate "pages". > >I can see their value in documentation, but I struggle to imagine > >their usefulness in code. > > I think a folding editor can fold them out, so you can just expand > the area you're interested in. Or something. The point is that it > is formatting that was presumably put there by the original author. > Unless they're actually upsetting something, I'd be inclined to > leave them.
Point taken.
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