Re: [PATCH] treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:58 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The section "19) Editor modelines and other cruft" in
> Documentation/process/coding-style.rst clearly says,
> "Do not include any of these in source files."
>
> I recently receive a patch to explicitly add a new one.
>
> Let's do treewide cleanups, otherwise some people follow the existing
> code and attempt to upstream their favoriate editor setups.
>
> It is even nicer if scripts/checkpatch.pl can check it.
>
> If we like to impose coding style in an editor-independent manner,
> I think editorconfig (patch [1]) is a saner solution.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200703073143.423557-1-danny@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  arch/m68k/atari/time.c                        |  7 -------

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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