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From: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PPC64] [TRIVIAL] Janitor whitespace in pSeries_pci.c
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:12:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040921161216.GD1872@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409211407.09764.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:07:09PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko was heard to remark:
> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:31, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> > 
> > Forgot to attach the actual patch.
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:19:33PM -0500, Linas Vepstas was heard to remark:
> > > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > This file mixes tabs with 8 spaces, leading to poor display 
> > if one's editor doesn't have tab-stops set to 8.   Please apply.
> 
> There are lots of such places.
> Automated scripts can easily produce megabytes worth of whitespace
> patches.
> 
> As I understand, such patches aren't accepted because
> merging pain is much greater than gain.
> Typically whitespace cleanups are piggybacked on some code changes.

Last time I sent in a combined whitespace plus other-fixes patch, 
I was asked to do the opposite, and split them apart.  I'm just
trying to do the right thing; I have other pending patches for this 
file, and I'm waiting for the backlog to clear out before I submit
those.

--linas


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-21 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20 22:19 [PATCH] [PPC64] [TRIVIAL] Janitor whitespace in pSeries_pci.c Linas Vepstas
2004-09-20 22:31 ` Linas Vepstas
2004-09-21 11:07   ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-09-21 16:12     ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2004-09-22 23:17       ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-23  0:29         ` Linas Vepstas
2004-09-23 15:36         ` Paul Mackerras
2004-09-23 16:08           ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-09-25 16:55             ` Denis Vlasenko

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