linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.14 111/237] tty: synclinkmp: Adjust indentation in several functions

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Date:   Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:06:45 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.14 111/237] tty: synclinkmp: Adjust indentation in
 several functions

On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 08:12 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:55:49PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:35 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
> > 
> > I believe these sorts of whitespace only changes should
> > not be applied to a stable branch unless it's useful for
> > porting other actual defect fixes.
> 
> I want to get clang build warnings down to the same level that gcc build
> warnings are, so that they become useful in detecting new issues.  That
> is why I add these types of patches to the stable trees.

New issues should be found in the current kernel.
Backporting whitespace changes is value-free.