linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Kbuild fixes for v6.8-rc3

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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 16:43:08 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Kbuild fixes for v6.8-rc3

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 15:57, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Is this your expectation?

Commit 82175d1f9430 touched *only* the nested 'if' indentations.

Your attached changed other indentations too, which I am not sure
makes any sense.

But honestly, that whole make rule wrt whitespace makes no sense to
begin with, and I don't know why the conditional statement is so
special to begin with, and why GNU make would then suddenly start
messing with an insane rule with bad historical reasons.

End result: all of this just reinforces how bad the Make rules for
whitespace is, but I would suggest doing the *minimal* changes to make
it work.

Which commit 82175d1f9430 did, but your attached patch then does not.

IOW, if the whole crazy makefile whitespace change was only about
conditionals, let's keep all the stupid whitespace fixups as purely
about conditionals too.

             Linus