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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid
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On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 09:59 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> On 1/28/22 9:42 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On 1/27/22 07:19, trix@redhat.com wrote:
> > > From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > checkpatch reports several hundred formatting errors.
> > > Run these files through clang-format and knock off
> > > some of them.
> >
> > Isn't this the kind of patches that carries more risk than value?

Risk for whitespace style reformatting patches is quite low.

Nominally, clang-format changes should not produce a different
compiled object file unless __LINE__/__DATE__/__TIME__ style
changes occur.

If it does, the clang-format tool is broken.

> > Additionally, this patch conflicts with a patch series that I plan to
> > post soon.
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> Long term, it would be good have a reliable way to automatically fix
> either new files or really broken old files.

That's really a maintainer preference no?

Especially so for any automation.


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