Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:24:11 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: boot: Fix mixed indentation in a20.c |
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On 11/19/2013 10:23 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 09:48:43AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: >> git diff -w and git blame -w both ignore whitespace changes and can >> help in tracking down actual modifications. > > That's not the point - I don't want those commits there getting in the > way. > > If it > > * doesn't fix a real bug, > * doesn't improve code generation > * doesn't have any other positive effect on the resulting object code > > then it doesn't need to be there. > > Whitespace jerking off doesn't belong in the kernel. >
I'll take a proper cleanup, but just whitespace... just pointless churn.
-hpa
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