[U-Boot] [RFC] Remove ^L string

Bo Shen bard.shen at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 03:43:08 CEST 2013


Hi Wolfgang,

On 4/24/2013 4:41, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom,
>
> In message <20130423185329.GK14952 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
>>
>>>> Remove ^L string
>>>
>>> What is the purpose of this modification?
>>
>> Cleaning up the sources?  These are not intentionally inserted
>> characters we have in a handful of files.  Mainly in "bedbug" files and
>> malloc related files.
> I have to admit that I did not find the proginal source reference any
> more, but my understanding is that this was imported code from another
> project, and I see little reason to "fix" it (i. e. making it
> incompatible to the original code) if there is not a good reason for
> it.
>
> Formfeed characters in the source code are IMHO mostly a matter of
> taste - in the editor they don't really hurt, and who of you has been
> printing the U-Boot source code in the last decade?

To be honest, I have not test it, I just see the ^L string in source 
file with editor. And try to clean it.

> So my recommendation is to just ignore this.  Let's focus on real
> problems, or at least real coding style violations.

OK. We can ignore this, and let's focus on real problems.

Best Regards,
Bo Shen

> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>



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