Re: [PATCH] fasync: Use tabs instead of spaces in code indent

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 14:29 +0800, Wen Gu wrote:
> When I investigated about fasync_list in SMC network subsystem,
> I happened to find that here uses spaces instead of tabs in code
> indent and fix this by the way.
> 
> Fixes: f7347ce4ee7c ("fasync: re-organize fasync entry insertion to
> allow it under a spinlock")
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/fcntl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
> index 9c6c6a3..36ba188 100644
> --- a/fs/fcntl.c
> +++ b/fs/fcntl.c
> @@ -927,7 +927,7 @@ void fasync_free(struct fasync_struct *new)
>   */
>  struct fasync_struct *fasync_insert_entry(int fd, struct file *filp, struct fasync_struct **fapp, struct fasync_struct *new)
>  {
> -        struct fasync_struct *fa, **fp;
> +	struct fasync_struct *fa, **fp;
>  
>  	spin_lock(&filp->f_lock);
>  	spin_lock(&fasync_lock);

Hi Wen,

I usually don't take patches that just fix whitespace like this. The
reason is that these sorts of patches tend to make backporting difficult
as they introduce merge conflicts for no good reason.

When you're making substantial changes in an area, then please do go
ahead and fix up whitespace in the same area, but patches that just fix
up whitespace are more trouble than they are worth.

Sorry,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>