Re: [PATCH 1/1] alpha: trivial: remove ^L chars

From: Magnus Lindholm

Date: Mon Jan 05 2026 - 05:42:21 EST


On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM Askar Safin <safinaskar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Remove ^L (a. k. a. \f a. k. a. form feed a. k. a. \x0c) from arch/alpha.
> I'm attempting to write my own tool for parsing kernel code.
> And these characters complicate this without giving any benefits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.c | 6 ++---
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_irongate.c | 2 +-
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c | 18 +++++++--------
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_mcpcia.c | 4 ++--
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_polaris.c | 2 +-
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_t2.c | 2 +-
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_titan.c | 10 ++++----
> arch/alpha/kernel/core_tsunami.c | 4 ++--
> arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c | 4 ++--
> arch/alpha/kernel/err_titan.c | 2 +-
> arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c | 4 ++--
> arch/alpha/kernel/smc37c669.c | 38 +++++++++++++++----------------
> arch/alpha/kernel/sys_marvel.c | 4 ++--
> arch/alpha/kernel/sys_titan.c | 8 +++----
> arch/alpha/kernel/time.c | 10 ++++----
> 15 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>

Nice cleanup work.

For a v2, please consider adjusting the commit message rationale away from
personal tooling and towards general readability and editor/tool compatibility.
Otherwise this looks fine to me.

Magnus