From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Walker Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/7] acpi: fix a bunch of style issues on 'actypes.h' Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:48:42 -0800 Message-ID: <1258148922.6411.20.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> References: <1255906474-25091-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1255906474-25091-6-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1258145921.6411.18.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <4911F71203A09E4D9981D27F9D8308583E43CEEB@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Kosina Cc: "Moore, Robert" , Felipe Contreras , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Len Brown , "Lin, Ming M" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 22:41 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Moore, Robert wrote: > > > >> And after today's discussion on kernel summit on this topic, I > > >> wouldn't expect any maintainer to merge it, sorry :) > > >could you be more specific about what "discussion" you are talking > > >about. > > Yes, do tell. > > I have probably lost the track of the context here already, sorry. > > But it probably had something to do with the fact that whitespace-only > patches (which [PATCH 5/7] acpi: fix a bunch of style issues on > 'actypes.h' has been, as far as I remember), are unnecessary noise. I don't think it was clear from the description , but I think this is actually a checkpatch cleanup. So it's not just random whitespace changes. AFAIK, maintainers do accept those. Daniel