linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] swsusp: Fix labels

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Date:	Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:25:06 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] swsusp: Fix labels

On Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:06, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:51 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Move all labels in the swsusp code to the second column, so that they won't
> > fool diff -p.
> 
> This sounds like working around brokenness in diff -p. Should/could a
> patch be submitted to the diff maintainer instead?

No.  This feature of diff is actually documented.

There was a discussion on LKML about it some time ago and the patch follows
the conclusion.

Greetings,
Rafael


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