Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261151AbVELFQ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 01:16:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261155AbVELFQY (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 01:16:24 -0400 Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.44]:62380 "EHLO mail-in-04.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261151AbVELFQS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 01:16:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:16:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: Nick Piggin cc: 7eggert@gmx.de, Jesper Juhl , "David S.Miller" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/module.c has something to hide. (whitespace cleanup) In-Reply-To: <4282D4CA.6030003@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <42Mbg-Tq-25@gated-at.bofh.it> <42MXA-1zI-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <42MXA-1zI-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <42Nh3-1M8-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <42Nh3-1M8-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <4282D4CA.6030003@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1707 Lines: 46 On Thu, 12 May 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: > >Jesper Juhl wrote: > >>If Andrew agrees, then I'll commit to doing this cleanup; > >>- (to a limited degree) no trailing whitespace > >I just ran a script over -rc4 to remove trailing ws. The result is > >about 22 MB in 429 patches (iterated over ./*/*). > > > >How hard can I patch you before you start patching me? > > > >Which addresses am I supposed to send it to? I don't want to break the > >record for the most annoying patch series in lkml. > > > > First of all, why is it 429 patches? Because 1) some parts will get rejected due to conflicting patches. Only those parts will need to be recreated. 2) i forgot to create the 430th patch. > The patches we want aren't about a > file or a subdirectory or even a subsystem, but they're supposed to be > a logical change. Ie. 1 patch. That would be too large for most mailboxes. If you like a single patch, you can just concatenate all the patches, so splitting it was a safe bet. > An exception for something like this would > be if you want to feed it to different maintainers seperately, but it > sounds like you just want to bomb it somewhere... I asume there is no automatic way to get the maintainer from a given file, and I don't want to grow old and grey while doing that manually. -- "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." -David Hackworth - 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/