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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: tao@debian.org, theman@josephdwagner.info, ak@suse.de,
	rmps@joel.ist.utl.pt, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Trailing blanks in source files
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:02:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127160214.69850c9c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040127111824.7f76efe6.rddunlap@osdl.org>

"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> So please don't bother with just whitespace changes unless you
> are going to cleanup a <driver | fs | module | etc> completely.

And if you're going to do that, do the whitespace cleanup _first_, so the
substantive changes to the driver/fs/module/etc can be sanely understood
and reverted if necessary.

I frequently sneakily remove all newly-added trailing whitespace from the
patches people send me.  In 15 years it'll all be gone.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401271544120.27260@joel.ist.utl.pt.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-01-27 18:34 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-27 18:51   ` Joseph D. Wagner
2004-01-27 19:13     ` David Weinehall
2004-01-27 19:18       ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-28  0:02         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-28  3:49           ` jw schultz
2004-01-28  3:55             ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-28  4:53               ` Pragnesh Sampat
2004-01-27 19:31       ` Paulo Marques
2004-01-28 22:15         ` Paul Jackson
2004-01-28 22:22           ` David Weinehall
2004-01-27 19:14     ` linux
2004-01-27 15:44 Rui Saraiva
2004-01-27 16:15 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-01-27 16:30   ` Bas Mevissen

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