From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753768AbbGJVhm (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:37:42 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:60581 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257AbbGJVhe (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:37:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:37:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joe Perches Cc: Jean Delvare , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lindent: Handle missing indent gracefully Message-Id: <20150710143732.108f19c660402c8dedc18263@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1436547847.24866.50.camel@perches.com> References: <20150710134751.624de706@endymion.delvare> <1436529101.24866.39.camel@perches.com> <1436535395.4540.18.camel@chaos.site> <1436547847.24866.50.camel@perches.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 10:04:07 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > > Le Friday 10 July 2015 __ 04:51 -0700, Joe Perches a __crit : > > > On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 13:47 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > > If indent is not found, bail out immediately instead of spitting > > > > random shell script error messages. > > > > > > OK, but can't we just delete Lindent instead? > > > > Because...? > > It's just not very useful in today's development space. I've very occasionally used Lindent. It's useful if the input is an utter mess. You feed it through Lindent as a first pass then get in and do the remainder by hand. It can be less work than doing the whole conversion by hand.