Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation: Adding "The Perfect Patch" by AndrewMorton

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri May 24 2013 - 00:16:39 EST


On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 23:10 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 05/23/2013 07:49:53 AM, Ben Minerds wrote:
> > Adding Andrews advice on patch submission and subdirectory for
> > further patch
> > documentstion.
>
> You've seen Documentation/SubmittingPatches right?

Maybe not.

> > +- Ensure that your patch does not add new trailing whitespace. The
> > below
> > + script will fix up your patch by stripping off such whitespace.
[]
> Doesn't scripts/checkpatch.pl check for this?

Yes it does.
scripts/cleanpatch exists too.


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