Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265659AbUATTUl (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:20:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265663AbUATTUl (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:20:41 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:51152 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265659AbUATTUM (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:20:12 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ben Pfaff Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for ide-scsi crash Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:46:30 -0800 Message-ID: <87k73m5ugp.fsf@pfaff.stanford.edu> References: Reply-To: blp@cs.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ya4A9f7XQa1TttfqDN+xgeQwHrk= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 14 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes: > Yes, it seems we presently have no good mechanism / policy here. > Patches are noise. If some kernel version works and another doesnt, > one has to look at the diffs. Whitespace-only diffs are bad, > I would never submit them. They also needlessly invalidate existing patches. When one version of a source file works and another doesn't, `diff -b' or `diff -w' usually does a good job of ignoring whitespace changes. -- Stanford Ph.D. Candidate - MSU Alumnus - Debian Maintainer - GNU Developer www.benpfaff.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/