Re: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations.

[Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)]

On Sat, 31 May 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:

> On Fri, 30 May 2003 14:38:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > >
> > > How about an all or nothing approach?  If you really want to get rid
> > > of K&R, change indentation as well, rip out some of the rather
> > > tasteless macros (ZEXPORT, ZEXPORTVA, ZEXTERN, FAR, ...) and so on.
> >
> > I'd love to, but I suspect we lack the motivation to do so, and there
> > aren't any obvious upsides. Yes, the code is ugly, but it's also fairly
> > stable so people seldom need to look at it.
>
> Well, since I'm currently working on the zlib anyway...

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 ...



- Davide

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