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

[Magnus Lindholm]

>  As a matter of interest, why would the presence of ^L characters cause
> any issues?  That is just another instance of white space and it has been
> commonly used across some source code to separate functional parts, e.g.
> in the GNU toolchain.  It can be ignored unless you actually send the code
> to a printer (which I suppose hardly anyone does nowadays).
>

I guess you're right, at this point it's mostly aesthetics. ^L is just
whitespace and the compiler ignores it, likely a relic from the old
days. Some editors display it a bit oddly, and most of the kernel seems
to have pruned these over time, but a few still linger in arch/alpha,
which fits the age and heritage there.

Magnus