Re: [PATCH] ipc: whitespace cleanup

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jan 07 2014 - 12:24:21 EST


On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 09:12 -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 16:02 +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > The ipc code does not adhere the typical linux coding style.
> > This patch fixes lots of simple whitespace errors.
>
> While it's no big deal, the title of the patch doesn't really reflect
> the actual changes as it deals with much more than just whitespace
> cleanups. How about something like "ipc: checkpatch fixes"?

Isn't a patch where "git diff -w" is empty
whitespace only cleanups?

$ git diff --help
[]
-w, --ignore-all-space
Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences
even if one line has whitespace where the other line has none.


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