Re: [PATCH] fix for ide-scsi crash

[Ben Pfaff]

Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx writes:

> Yes, it seems we presently have no good mechanism / policy here.
> Patches are noise. If some kernel version works and another doesnt,
> one has to look at the diffs. Whitespace-only diffs are bad,
> I would never submit them. They also needlessly invalidate existing patches.

When one version of a source file works and another doesn't,
`diff -b' or `diff -w' usually does a good job of ignoring
whitespace changes.
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