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From: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Padraig Brady <padraig@antefacto.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove trailing whitespace
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:00:43 -0200
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On Friday 23 November 2001 15:20, Padraig Brady wrote:
> This (23MB! (5Mb compressed)) patch removes trailing whitespace from
> all files in the kernel, thereby reducing size from 121,865,495 to
> 121,640,841. I.E. reducing size by 224,654 bytes. I don't know if it's
> of any use, but it should be applied now if it is going to be done
> at all.
>
> http://www.iol.ie/~padraiga/linux-2.5.0-strip-ws.diff.gz

Isn't it easier to write a script 'clean_trailing_ws' (or whatever)
and add it to scripts/ ?
Linus can apply such 'cleaning' scripts at times like 2.4 -> 2.5
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vda
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