On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:52:45PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Whitespace patches, where git diff -w does not show
> any difference and objdiff on the objects for a few
> randconfigs are identical, maybe could be sifted
> into a separate category from other patches.
> Maybe the kbuild test robot could help identify the
> whitespace style patches that can be easily applied.

It sort of takes a while to test the randconfig thing...  diff -w
doesn't catch every single issue.  For example:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-driver-devel/msg78707.html

That's the only time I noticed a mistake like that which diff -w missed.

Also here is my rename_rev.pl script.  It's pretty useful.  Pipe
patches to it and it filters out the white space changes.

regards,
dan carpenter