Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 03:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:57:31 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > SL Baur <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Please take the emacsism out of the file as it bothers Andrew and others.
> > > 
> > > I thought Andrew said it didn't bother him.  I assume he was curious.
> > > 
> > 
> > Well it's just one line - hardly a big deal.
> > 
> > However if that line was a good one then we should get organised and
> > annotate all Kbuild files in the tree and appoint you
> > kbuild-makefile-tag-maintainer.
> > 
> > And if it wasn't a good line then it shouldn't have been added.
> 
> IFF we're going to annotate files like this, then also add the magic
> incantation to make vim do the right thing :-)

How about we change its name to something more sensible instead? We
only need this hack because the file has a .asm extension. It is
entirely reasonable for an editor (or a person!) to conclude that a
file with a .asm extension contains assembly language.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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