From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jaco Kroon Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:18:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] Re: [PATCH ARRAY_SIZE 1/4] kernel 2.6 size macro clean ups Message-Id: <465CB4CD.7030109@kroon.co.za> List-Id: References: <465C99C3.4030802@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <465C99C3.4030802@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007 00:17:15 +0200 Jaco Kroon wrote: > >> Aaron Cripps wrote: >>> Jaco Kroon wrote: >>>> This patch includes a bunch of white-space changes. I recommend >>>> passing -B to the diff command. > > We really don't want to risk mis-applying a patch. -B and -b does two different things. -B will simply ignore the diff between two lines IFF the only changes is whitespace. In other words, if the destination line is the same as the source except for whitespace it'll pretend the destination is the same in terms of whitespace as well. -b however is dangerous. It breaks things. Avoid. Jaco _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors