Re: [CFT/PATCH] give sound/oss/trident a holiday cleanup for 2.6

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 19:44:16 EST


Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Nah, leave it as is. I'm just having a little whine. I added a nifty
> > trailing-whitespace-detector to patch-scripts a while back and it's telling
> > me that a *lot* of people use broken editors.
> >
>
> And if their editor changed the whitespace you'd get a lot more patches with
> shitespace cleanups mixed in, and they'd have to clean up thhose patches... ;)

That's different. I refer to patches which *add* trailing
whitespace: ^+.*[ ]$

I usually strip it out for them. This has the potential to irritate people
because it can cause rejects for followup patches, but nobody has yet
mentioned it.


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