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Message-ID: <20131105104016.GA24096@linux>
Date:	Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:40:16 +0200
From:	Aldo Iljazi <mail@...o.io>
To:	dsterba@...e.cz, chris.mason@...ionio.com,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FS: BTRFS: fixed coding style issues

 David Sterba wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 12:32:37PM +0200, Aldo Iljazi wrote:
> >  David Sterba wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 03:27:38PM +0200, Aldo Iljazi wrote:
> > > > Fixed three coding style issues. Replaced spaces with tabs.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Aldo Iljazi <mail@...o.io>
> > > > ---
> > > >  fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c | 6 +++---
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
> > > > index 9efb94e..b2fe609 100644
> > > > --- a/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
> > > > +++ b/fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c
> > > > @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int btrfs_dev_replace_start(struct btrfs_root *root,
> > > >  	printk_in_rcu(KERN_INFO
> > > >  		      "btrfs: dev_replace from %s (devid %llu) to %s) started\n",
> > > >  		      src_device->missing ? "<missing disk>" :
> > > > -		        rcu_str_deref(src_device->name),
> > > > +			rcu_str_deref(src_device->name),
> > > 
> > > What's the change here? I don't think we need to fix whitespace, this makes
> > > searching in patch history more tedious, namely in case where the code looks
> > > exactly the same before and after the patch.
> > > 
> > > The style issues should be best fixed when the patch is about to be
> > > merged, doing it later like this is kind of not welcome, speaking for
> > > myself. There are lots of opportunities to do real code cleanups.
> > > 
> > > Whitespace changes are just noise, we don't need them at this point of
> > > development phase of btrfs.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > david
> > 
> > I replaced the spaces with tabs, as the kernel coding style suggests.
> 
> I repeat:
> 
> Whitespace changes are just noise, we don't need them at this point of
> development phase of btrfs.
> 
> david

Okay then ignore the patch.
-- 
Aldo Iljazi
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