linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fixed most indent issues in tty

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Date:   Sat, 07 Sep 2019 12:27:16 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sandro Volery <sandro@...ery.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jslaby@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed most indent issues in tty_io.c

On Sat, 2019-09-07 at 18:42 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 07:35:42PM +0200, Sandro Volery wrote:
> > 
> > > > > On 7 Sep 2019, at 19:29, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 07:23:59PM +0200, Sandro Volery wrote:
> > > > Dear Greg,
> > > > I am pretty sure the issue was, that I did too many things at once. However, all the things I did are related to spaces / tabs, maybe that still works?
> > > 
> > > <snip>
> > > 
> > > For some reason you sent this only to me, which is a bit rude to
> > > everyone else on the mailing list.  I'll be glad to respond if you
> > > resend it to everyone.
> > 
> > I'm sorry, newbie here. I thought it'd be better to not annoy everyone with responses but learning things everyday I guess :)
> 
> No problem, but you should also line-wrap your emails :)
> 
> > I am pretty sure the issue with my patch was that there was too many changes, however all of them were spaces and tabs related, so I think this could be fine?
> 
> As the bot said, break it out into "one patch per logical change", and
> "fix all whitespace issues" is not "one logical change".

As long as git diff -w shows no difference and a compiled
object comparison before and after the change shows no
difference, I think it's fine.

In fact, it avoid multiple commits where the only changes
are whitespace.