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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 69/78] ncr5380: Fix whitespace in comments using
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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:20:48 -0800
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On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 14:10 +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jan 2016 23:54:28 -0800
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>=20
> > On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 16:06 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> > > Hanging indentation was a poor choice for the text inside comment=
s. It
> > > has been used in the wrong places and done badly elsewhere. There=
 is
> > > little consistency within any file. One fork of the core driver u=
ses
> > > tabs for this indentation while the other uses spaces. Better to =
use
> > > flush-left alignment throughout.
> > >=20
> > > This patch is the result of the following substitution. It replac=
es tabs
> > > and spaces at the start of a comment line with a single space.
> > >=20
> > > perl -i -pe 's,^(\t*[/ ]\*)[ \t]+,$1 ,' drivers/scsi/{atari_,}NCR=
5380.c=A0
> > >=20
> > > This removes some unimportant discrepancies between the two core =
driver
> > > forks so that the important ones become obvious, to facilitate
> > > reunification.
> >=20
> > I still think this patch is poor at best and
> > overall not useful.
>=20
> I would beg to differ. As a tool for understanding the differences as=
 you
> step through the versions it's invaluable.

This removes intentional formatting that
makes reading comments easier.

diff -w works well.