From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: Line layout whitespace fixes Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 00:44:03 +0100 Message-ID: <560DC543.3060809@chirality.org.uk> References: <1443089406-8996-1-git-send-email-ipm@chirality.org.uk> <20150930221707.GA14994@salvia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from inet-gw.chirality.org.uk ([88.97.209.22]:48916 "EHLO cedar.ipmorris.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751131AbbJAXoH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2015 19:44:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150930221707.GA14994@salvia> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 30/09/15 23:17, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:10:06AM +0100, Ian Morris wrote: >> Fixes various whitespace issues detected by checkpatch (e.g. adding spaces between operations, replacing spaces with tabs, etc) >> >> No changes detected by objdiff. > These large cleanup patch causes problems for -stable maintainers, > since they have more conflicts when backporting stuff. > > I'd rather keep this back. > Please help me understand: until when do you propose such changes be deferred? Or are you suggesting we should apply changes more incrementally somehow?