Re: [PATCH] x86: boot: Fix mixed indentation in a20.c

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Nov 19 2013 - 13:24:48 EST


On 11/19/2013 10:23 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 09:48:43AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>> git diff -w and git blame -w both ignore whitespace changes and can
>> help in tracking down actual modifications.
>
> That's not the point - I don't want those commits there getting in the
> way.
>
> If it
>
> * doesn't fix a real bug,
> * doesn't improve code generation
> * doesn't have any other positive effect on the resulting object code
>
> then it doesn't need to be there.
>
> Whitespace jerking off doesn't belong in the kernel.
>

I'll take a proper cleanup, but just whitespace... just pointless churn.

-hpa

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