Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:57:20 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/7] acpi: fix a bunch of style issues on 'actypes.h' | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> Many still remain. >> >> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> > > I have never been in favor of merging whitespace-only patches (in a sense > that the sole purpose of them being to change whitespaces, but no else > value added).
If somebody tries to send a patch for that file that doesn't fix the white-space, checkpatch will complain, and people will complain that checkpatch complains, which is precisely what happened, and I was requested to write this patch by Daniel Walker (final mail wasn't on the ml):
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/14/183
> And after today's discussion on kernel summit on this topic, I wouldn't > expect any maintainer to merge it, sorry :)
What are you talking about?
-- Felipe Contreras
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