From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PPC64] [TRIVIAL] Janitor whitespace in pSeries_pci.c
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:07:09 +0300
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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.
--
vda

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