Re: [PATCH 4.14 111/237] tty: synclinkmp: Adjust indentation in several functions

Joe Perches
2020-02-28T18:08:21Z

On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 08:12 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:55:49PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:35 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> >
> > I believe these sorts of whitespace only changes should
> > not be applied to a stable branch unless it's useful for
> > porting other actual defect fixes.
>
> I want to get clang build warnings down to the same level that gcc build
> warnings are, so that they become useful in detecting new issues. That
> is why I add these types of patches to the stable trees.

New issues should be found in the current kernel.
Backporting whitespace changes is value-free.