Re: [PATCH 1/1] fs: ext4: namei: trivial: Fix a couple of small whitespace issues

[Lee Jones]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:35:43PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 May 2021, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Remy Card <card@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/ext4/namei.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Any news on this please?
> > 
> > Would you like me to submit a [RESEND]?
> 
> Please don't send "checkpatch.pl --file" patches for the ext4 file
> system; if you must, please focus on files in the drivers directory,
> where they are more welcome.  If developers are making changes to a
> file, fixing some checkpatch.pl whines is fine, but white-sapace only
> changes just obfuscates "git blame" code archology, and so the costs
> far outwieghs the costs.  "Fix" is also not the right verb to use.
> For more information please see [1].
> 
> [1] https://gist.github.com/17twenty/8154928
> 
> If you are looking for subtantive ways of contributing to the ext4
> file system, feel free to look at various syzbot warnings[2] and try
> to figure out what is going on there.
> 
> [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/upstream
> 
> (In some cases, the syzbot complaint has already been fixed, and it's
> just a matter of letting syzbot knoww that it has since been fixed by
> a particular commit.  See [3] for more details.)
> 
> [3] https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md

This patch doesn't have anything to do with checkpatch.

Daniel, who was making more 'substantive' changes to ext4, fixed these
whitespace issues in his first submission [0], but were dropped from
the second revision for some reason and thus didn't make it into
Mainline [1].

This is an attempt to realign his development repo (Android) with
Mainline.  I had the choice of either backporting the issues back into
the Android kernel or upstreaming the original whitespace cleanup.

It made more sense to me to draft a patch making one codebase better
than another one worse.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210203090745.4103054-2-drosen@xxxxxxxxxx/
[1] 471fbbea7ff70 ext4: handle casefolding with encryption

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