linux-kernel - Re: git-apply --whitespace (Re: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure)

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Date:	Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:19:29 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	"ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-apply --whitespace (Re: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI, APEI, APEI
 supporting infrastructure)

On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 09:14 +0800, Len Brown wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..4085bdd
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig
> > @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> > +config ACPI_APEI
> > +	tristate "ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI)"
> > +	depends on X86
> > +	help
> > +	  APEI allows to report errors (for example from the chipset)
> > +	  to the operating system. This improves NMI handling
> > +	  especially. In addition it supports error serialization and
> > +	  error injection.
> > +
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/apei/Makefile
> 
> FYI, git apply considers a trailing blank line,
> such as the one at the end of the hunk above,
> to be a "whitespace error".
> 
> I use --whitespace=strip, which causes git to delete it
> upon checkin.  However, that causes the 4th patch in
> this series, which appents to this file, to not apply.
> 
> Please don't send patches with trailing blank lines.
> In this case, the blank should come as a "preceeding"
> blank line in the 4th patch...

Sorry about that. I will be more careful in next time.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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