Re: [PATCH] 2.5 Documentation/CodingStyle ANSI C function declarations.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> Talking about the code, there are still a bunch of files that uses spaces
> with tabsize=4. Shouldn't those be reformatted with real TABs ? An emacs
> lisp (indent+tabify) might do it pretty fast ...

I don't generally like changing syntactic stuff without a reason.

A good reason is when the original maintainer is not that active any more,
and a new maintainer (or even just random fixer) feels that they need to
run indent on the sources in order to make them more readable before 
doign a fix.

It happens, but not very often. Alan and Al both do it to the files they 
clean up. But I don't like having it done "just because" - there should be 
a real underlying reason.

		Linus