Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266304AbUIWPiW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:38:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266310AbUIWPiW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:38:22 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:50151 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266304AbUIWPiV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:38:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16722.60814.732208.93234@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:36:46 -0700 From: Paul Mackerras To: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Linas Vepstas , Denis Vlasenko , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PPC64] [TRIVIAL] Janitor whitespace in pSeries_pci.c In-Reply-To: <20040922231700.GE30109@MAIL.13thfloor.at> References: <20040920221933.GB1872@austin.ibm.com> <20040920223121.GC1872@austin.ibm.com> <200409211407.09764.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20040921161216.GD1872@austin.ibm.com> <20040922231700.GE30109@MAIL.13thfloor.at> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 17 Herbert Poetzl writes: > well, I'd like to know if full whitespace cleanup > (trailing and indentation) _is_ something which > is interesting for linux mainline ... It's like this... you get to clean up the white space in a file (if you want) IF you are also doing some useful work on the file - but the whitespace cleanup and the useful work need to be separate patches in order to ease later tracking of what changed. Paul. - 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/