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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [PPC64] [TRIVIAL] Janitor whitespace in pSeries_pci.c
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

> --linas
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