Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 2004 01:17:00 +0200 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [PPC64] [TRIVIAL] Janitor whitespace in pSeries_pci.c |
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:12:16AM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:07:09PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko was heard to remark: > > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:31, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > > > > Forgot to attach the actual patch. > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:19:33PM -0500, Linas Vepstas was heard to remark: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > This file mixes tabs with 8 spaces, leading to poor display > > > if one's editor doesn't have tab-stops set to 8. Please apply. > > > > There are lots of such places. > > Automated scripts can easily produce megabytes worth of whitespace > > patches. > > > > As I understand, such patches aren't accepted because > > merging pain is much greater than gain. > > Typically whitespace cleanups are piggybacked on some code changes. > > Last time I sent in a combined whitespace plus other-fixes patch, > I was asked to do the opposite, and split them apart. I'm just > trying to do the right thing; I have other pending patches for this > file, and I'm waiting for the backlog to clear out before I submit > those.
well, I'd like to know if full whitespace cleanup (trailing and indentation) _is_ something which is interesting for linux mainline ...
because if so, I probably could provide a bunch of patches too ...
TIA, Herbert
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