Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2 ] [x86] Modify comments and clean up code.

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ling.ma@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> > From: Ma Ling <ling.ma@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Modern CPU use fast-string instruction to accelerate copy performance,
> > by combining data into 128bit, so we modify comments and code style.
> 
> The description has nothing to do with the patch.
> 
> As far as I can tell the patch just renames one symbol
> and changes all white space. Not fully sure what the point of it 
> is. 
> 
> But normally white space change patches are not supposed to have 
> any other changes because the other changes embedded in them are 
> impossible to review.

Non-functional cleanups can go into the same patch as whitespace 
cleanups, as long as the generated object code does not change.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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