Re: [PATCH RFC -next] Fix the trailing blank space issue

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:31:39PM +0000, Cong Ding wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:06:06AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:42:20PM +0000, Cong Ding wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 05:08:56PM +0800, Bin Wang wrote:
> > > > This patch removes the trailing white space in fs/sysfs/mount.c.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Bin Wang <wbin00@gmail.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  fs/sysfs/mount.c | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > I am not sure it is really necessary to remove all the trailing blank spaces
> > > in the project. I have done a try by this shell command
> > > $ find . -iname '*.[ch]' | xargs sed 's/\s\+$//g' -i
> > > and find there are 2812 files/31712 lines with this issue. 
> > 
> > That's very true, why would you want to do this?
> > 
> > This comes up every 6 months or so on the linux-kernel mailing list,
> > please see the archives for previous responses to the topic.
> > 
> > If you want, just slowly send patches to the different subsystem
> > maintainers, to clean the issue up.
> sorry for forgetting press "reply all" in the former email...
> 
> Sending them slowly to different subsystem maintainers is a very bad idea,
> because it wastes lots of time for both me and them. But the current situation
> is that there are some people send this kind of patches in random time which
> also is a kind of wasting their time.
> 
> I think we'd better to find a solution, not only for the blank space issue,
> but also all the coding style issues able to be fixed by scripts.
> 
> I would suggest to write a series of scripts. And then announce a date
> (preferably some holiday like Xmas) to run these scripts. The announce is to
> avoid conflicts with other developers. It will save both developers' and
> subsystem maintains' time, do you agree?

No I do not, it's not a big issue at all.  As I said, look in the
archives, this comes up every six months or so.

greg k-h