Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262091AbVELSH1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 14:07:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262092AbVELSH1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 14:07:27 -0400 Received: from bay-bridge.veritas.com ([143.127.3.10]:58365 "EHLO MTVMIME01.enterprise.veritas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262091AbVELSHN (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 14:07:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:06:55 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@goblin.wat.veritas.com To: Jesper Juhl cc: Paulo Marques , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/module.c has something to hide. (whitespace cleanup) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050510161657.3afb21ff.akpm@osdl.org> <20050510.161907.116353193.davem@davemloft.net> <20050510170246.5be58840.akpm@osdl.org> <20050510.170946.10291902.davem@davemloft.net> <20050510172913.2d47a4d4.akpm@osdl.org> <4281E78B.2030103@grupopie.com> <20050511225657.GM6884@stusta.de> <42834935.9060404@grupopie.com> <42835BDB.40505@grupopie.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 May 2005 18:06:16.0104 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A3BFA80:01C5571D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 23 On Thu, 12 May 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Paulo Marques wrote: > > > > At least with my config, if I remove both instances of UTS_VERSION from > > init/version.c, the resulting vmlinux files are exactly identical with the > > same sha1sum. > > > > So maybe Jesper can use this to make *really* sure that there are no actual > > changes with the patches, just whitespace changes. > > Yeah, that does seem to work. I had not thought of that - thanks. If you're going so far as to change the line numbering (which is very much your intention!), then you'll also need to suppress any __LINE__s for that check. Switching off CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE should suppress most of them. Hugh - 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/