[PATCH 155/342] Staging: wlan-ng: Lindent cleanups

J. R. Mauro jrm8005 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 12:01:44 UTC 2009





On Jun 22, 2009, at 5:36, Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd at firmix.at> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 21:13 -0400, J.R. Mauro wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Pavel Roskin<proski at gnu.org> wrote:
> [...]
>>> But the best fix would be to replace hfa384x_t with "struct  
>>> hfa384x" as
>>> the Linux coding standard requires.  Then GNU indent would do the  
>>> right
>>> thing.
>>
>> And now I remember what my fix was: Lindent does not understand the
>> usual typedefs that we use, such as u8, and will mung those as well.
>> My fix simply added a bunch of the standard typedefs to Lindent so
>> that it wouldn't change ``u8 *up'' to ``u8 * up''
>>
>> As I recall, there was no interest in it on LKML. If anyone thinks it
>
> Only LKML? Perhaps it just get lost.
> Do kbuild people take such patches?

I don't know

>
>
>> has value, I can dig up the patch if you want to ACK it.
>
> IMHO it has.

I can try mailing it to kbuild, I'll CC you

>
>
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