netdev - Re: ppp_generic.c severly whitespace damanged by 9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a

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Message-Id: <20100119.021301.228036686.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:13:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gabriele.paoloni@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ppp_generic.c severly whitespace damanged by
 9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a

From: lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:59:55 -0500

> I was just looking at ppp_generic, and noticed that it fairly recently
> (as in the last year) got rather mangled with many spaces turned into tabs
> in places they very much shouldn't have been.  I tracked it down to commit
> 9c705260feea6ae329bc6b6d5f6d2ef0227eda0a (ppp: ppp_mp_explode() redesign).
> 
> I am amazed if that patch passed the patch checking script.  I have no
> idea what kind of weird editor setting did this, but it has to have been a
> weird editor setting or a very unfortunate search and replace gone wrong.
> I only found it trying to apply a patch I was playing with and wondering
> why it wouldn't apply.  Then I found there were tabs in the middle of
> comments that used to be spaces.
> 
> Well here is a patch that should fix it up as far as I can tell.
> 
> Purely whitespace repair.  No actual code changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>

I'm probably responsible for not catching this sorry.

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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