On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:52:39 -0400 (EDT) 
 Skeelo <skeelo@white-dwarf.dyn.ml.org> wrote:

 > Someone please hit me with the "clue by four", what is KNF?

Kernel Normal Form ... the formal style guide used by Berkeley, and the
one used by NetBSD.  A commit message like this basically says "reformatted
to match the style guide".

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