On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 08:12 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:55:49PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:35 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I believe these sorts of whitespace only changes should
> not be applied to a stable branch unless it's useful for
> porting other actual defect fixes.
I want to get clang build warnings down to the same level that gcc build
warnings are, so that they become useful in detecting new issues. That
is why I add these types of patches to the stable trees.
New issues should be found in the current kernel.
Backporting whitespace changes is value-free.