Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753988AbZJTFye (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:54:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752315AbZJTFyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:54:33 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:31465 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750781AbZJTFyc (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:54:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] acpi: fix a bunch of style issues on 'actypes.h' From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Felipe Contreras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Bob Moore , Lin Ming , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1255906474-25091-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1255906474-25091-6-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <94a0d4530910190757y139c7e20xe6a58f0cbf13a79d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:53:19 +0300 Message-Id: <1256017999.29856.46.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2009 05:53:21.0482 (UTC) FILETIME=[A157AAA0:01CA5149] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1969 Lines: 46 On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 17:03 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > > 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, > > Oh, well ... checkpatch warning about this is somewhat controversial. My > preferred way would be that it warns about whitespace only if there are > also some other (non-whitespace) changes. > > > 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 > > This is something slightly different -- he asks you to fixup whitespace > issue in the code you are newly introducing, right? > > > > 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? > > Seems like many kernel maintainers are just tired of > 'whitespace-cleanup-only' patches that bring no real added value > otherwise. May be some are tired, but others just say thanks and apply them, because it is easier to apply than complain, and because they do not mind if their subsystem becomes a tiny bit cleaner. Sometimes it may cause troubles, but hey, development is not easy and we are accustomed to fix conflict and amend patches. But the include/acpi/actypes.h does not seem to be changing very often anyway. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий) -- 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/