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

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Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:32:41 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] swsusp: Fix labels

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:25:06 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> 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.

There was discussion, and then both Jesper and I tried to
reproduce the problem with diff and could not do so.
Maybe it has already been fixed. (?)

---
~Randy
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