Re: [PATCH 5/7] acpi: fix a bunch of style issues on 'actypes.h'

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> Many still remain.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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, 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

> 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?

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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