Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756541AbZJSO5U (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:57:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756535AbZJSO5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:57:18 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:41885 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756514AbZJSO5Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:57:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=h4c45E0fIBrw4BYuqBvb31gUidxhnOXN0Zvhj779FzvNqm+u+le8dH7T2GBOXPUoWN 9lx1C7g8PSxoPIIHTy4tPePi+d5520AfZTCvM+zONDXupG26xzFx/7Re2mRJbWhNc6Ax mMW3ulfC6uiwWLn/b4XjDqUylAYw3MPrMphr4= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1255906474-25091-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1255906474-25091-6-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:57:20 +0300 Message-ID: <94a0d4530910190757y139c7e20xe6a58f0cbf13a79d@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] acpi: fix a bunch of style issues on 'actypes.h' From: Felipe Contreras To: Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Bob Moore , Lin Ming , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1111 Lines: 31 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> Many still remain. >> >> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras > > I have never been in favor of merging whitespace-only patches (in a sense > that the sole purpose of them being to change whitespaces, but no else > value added). If somebody tries to send a patch for that file that doesn't fix the white-space, checkpatch will complain, and people will complain that checkpatch complains, which is precisely what happened, and I was requested to write this patch by Daniel Walker (final mail wasn't on the ml): http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/14/183 > And after today's discussion on kernel summit on this topic, I wouldn't > expect any maintainer to merge it, sorry :) What are you talking about? -- Felipe Contreras -- 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/