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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Johannes Löthberg" <johannes@kyriasis.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: boot: Fix mixed indentation in a20.c
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:34:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131119103408.GA3640@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131119072241.GB32478@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 08:22:41AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 11/18/2013 09:50 AM, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> > > Replace all mixed indentation with tabs
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
> > 
> > NAK.  Not worth the churn in the absence of other changes.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> If a20.c was cleaned up altogether, that might be a more tempting 
> change, it has a good number of inconsistencies and improving it all 
> would make it more readable.
>  
> But it makes little sense to do an incomplete cleanup.

Yeah, senseless cleanup without any benefit whatsoever (yeah, fuck
readability! :-)) should be forbidden, if you ask me. Especially
since it dilutes and muds up git history and finding the patch which
introduced a change turns into a serious undertaking.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-18 17:50 [PATCH] x86: boot: Fix mixed indentation in a20.c Johannes Löthberg
2013-11-19  2:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-19  7:22   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-19 10:34     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-11-19 17:48       ` Joe Perches
2013-11-19 18:23         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-19 18:24           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-19 18:28             ` Joe Perches
2013-11-19 18:45               ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-19 18:59                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-25 10:18               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-25 11:02                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-26  0:51                 ` Joe Perches
2013-11-26  7:43                   ` Borislav Petkov

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