Re: [PATCH] FS: BTRFS: fixed coding style issues

[Aldo Iljazi]

 David Sterba wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 03:27:38PM +0200, Aldo Iljazi wrote:
> > Fixed three coding style issues. Replaced spaces with tabs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Aldo Iljazi <mail@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
> > index 9efb94e..b2fe609 100644
> > --- a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
> > @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int btrfs_dev_replace_start(struct btrfs_root *root,
> >  	printk_in_rcu(KERN_INFO
> >  		      "btrfs: dev_replace from %s (devid %llu) to %s) started\n",
> >  		      src_device->missing ? "<missing disk>" :
> > -		        rcu_str_deref(src_device->name),
> > +			rcu_str_deref(src_device->name),
> 
> What's the change here? I don't think we need to fix whitespace, this makes
> searching in patch history more tedious, namely in case where the code looks
> exactly the same before and after the patch.
> 
> The style issues should be best fixed when the patch is about to be
> merged, doing it later like this is kind of not welcome, speaking for
> myself. There are lots of opportunities to do real code cleanups.
> 
> Whitespace changes are just noise, we don't need them at this point of
> development phase of btrfs.
> 
> 
> david

I replaced the spaces with tabs, as the kernel coding style suggests.
-- 
Aldo Iljazi
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