Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 00/12] NXP SJA1105 DSA driver

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 19:55, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Wow I am sorry, Gmail apparently moved your reply to spam and I only
> > got it when I posted my message just now.
> > Do you know what causes these whitespace errors, so I can avoid them
> > next time? I think I'm generating my patches rather normally, with
> > $(git format-patch -12 --subject-prefix="PATCH v4 net-next"
> > --cover-letter).
>
> What happens when you run checkpatch on the patches? Does it report
> white space problems.
>
> Another possibility is your email system has mangled the patches.
> First try applying the patches you generated from format-patch to a
> clean tree. If you don't get any warnings, email the patches to
> yourself, and then apply them.
>
>      Andrew

Hi Andrew,

checkpatch.pl --strict doesn't appear to catch this. It looks like
it's caused by introducing new files that are terminated in a blank
line. I will stop doing that.

Thanks,
-Vladimir