Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933084AbXA2CAs (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:00:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933089AbXA2CAs (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:00:48 -0500 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:42035 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933084AbXA2CAs (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:00:48 -0500 Message-ID: <45BD5543.5020704@student.ltu.se> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:00:35 +0100 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oleg Verych CC: Andrew Morton , LKML Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] Remove "space damage" from patches References: <45BD177D.6060907@student.ltu.se> <45BD3AF7.4070902@student.ltu.se> <45BD4D2C.2010306@student.ltu.se> <20070129014327.GA25271@flower.upol.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070129014327.GA25271@flower.upol.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1370 Lines: 35 Oleg Verych wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:26:04AM +0100, Richard Knutsson wrote: > [] > >> I also guess you saw that the script is _not_ for cleaning up >> source-files (can be intrusive and is better to be fixed when fixing >> something else), but patches. >> > > IMHO it's dealing with consequences, not cause, and it's even worse. > How many patches is not to fix bugs, it is worse then some strayed whitespace but it is due to reality. The best is, of course, if neither happened but the next best thing is to fix it. And if it can be automated, even better (imho). >> So if a maintainer does not have anything to easily fix those, they >> might want a simple script to do the work (otherwise I believe they >> just deleted my mail ;) ). >> > > I would like to discuss, would you? > I like to discuss but I am not sure what the result would be. Force people to use the editors of our choice? As long people uses valid e-mail-clients when sending patches (or they use the script "sendpatchset"), I'm think we have to be satisfied. But if you have any ideas, I'm listening. Richard Knutsson - 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/