From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755618AbYADWNi (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:13:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754777AbYADWNU (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:13:20 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53331 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754688AbYADWNT (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:13:19 -0500 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH x86] [5/16] Replace hard coded reservations in x86-64 early boot code with dynamic table II Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:13:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Ingo Molnar , peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner References: <20080103442.621670000@suse.de> <20080104180650.GA2998@bingen.suse.de> <1199472453.4888.19.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1199472453.4888.19.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801042313.14551.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 04 January 2008 19:47:33 Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 19:06 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > But the problem with your "rule" is that every of the hundreds > > of Linux kernel contributors will need to do the same. And that's just > > ineffecient, waste of valuable human work and just doesn't make much sense. > > > > It certainly won't improve Linux in any way. > > What I would prefer is a git option that supports > check-in/outs in a coding style of a user choice. I'm not very deep into git specifics, but for the spaces<->tab problem I suspect some kind of commit hook script would be the correct solution. i.e. always convert them in newly changed lines as comitted. -Andi