Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] tty: Fix whitespace before tab warnings

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:37:01AM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> This patch is whitespace only.
> 
> Checkpatch emits a BUNCH of warnings of type
> 
> 	WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
> 	WARNING: please, no space before tabs
> 
> While these may seem trivial they hinder further cleanup efforts because
> there are so many that later cleanup touches many of the same lines,
> this makes the cleanup patches super noisy when parsed with
> checkpatch (although checkpatching this series is prohibitively noisy
> even with this patch).
> 
> In preparation for doing kernel-docs cleanup fix all the whitespace
> before tab and whitespace at start of line warnings.  We do not fix any
> that are obviously there for extra-ordinary formatting reasons.
> 
> Any line in the diff with obvious other formatting errors is fixed also
> excluding kernel-docs lines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Actually, checkpatch is only noisy on a couple of patches from this
> set.  I ran checkpatch individually (instead of on the whole set) on
> each patch and fixed things within scope of this set while working on
> version 2 of the set.
> 
>  drivers/tty/amiserial.c                     |  43 ++++---
>  drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c               |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/ipwireless/tty.c                |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/isicom.c                        |   4 +-
>  drivers/tty/moxa.c                          |  30 +++--
>  drivers/tty/mxser.c                         |  10 +-
>  drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c                        |  10 +-
>  drivers/tty/rocket.c                        |   8 +-
>  drivers/tty/serdev/core.c                   |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c           |   4 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c             |   8 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/cpm_uart/cpm_uart_core.c |   8 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/icom.c                   |   5 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/ip22zilog.c              |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/jsm/jsm_neo.c            |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/mux.c                    |   6 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/mxs-auart.c              |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/pmac_zilog.c             |   4 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/pxa.c                    |  20 +--
>  drivers/tty/serial/serial_txx9.c            |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/sn_console.c             |  38 +++---
>  drivers/tty/serial/sunsab.c                 |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/sunsu.c                  |   4 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/sunzilog.c               |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/ucc_uart.c               | 134 ++++++++++----------
>  drivers/tty/serial/vr41xx_siu.c             |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/zs.c                     |  12 +-
>  drivers/tty/sysrq.c                         |  34 ++---
>  drivers/tty/tty_baudrate.c                  |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/tty_io.c                        |  22 ++--
>  drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c                     |   2 +-
>  drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c                   |   8 +-
>  drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c                 |   6 +-
>  drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c                   |  29 +++--
>  drivers/tty/vt/selection.c                  |  12 +-
>  drivers/tty/vt/vt.c                         |  40 +++---
>  drivers/tty/vt/vt_ioctl.c                   |  14 +-
>  37 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 266 deletions(-)

The hard part about doing large patches like this that cross lots of
files is that it usually does not end up applying.  This patch currently
fails against 4.20-rc1 :(

But, if it were divided up into "one patch per driver" then I could have
applied the majority of them, as only a few drivers changed to require
this series to be rebased and reworked.

I really want to apply this patch series, but as-is, it just can't even
apply...  Can you rebase/break up the patches into smaller ones so that
we have a chance to get them merged eventually?

thanks,

greg k-h