From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for ide-scsi crash
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:46:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k73m5ugp.fsf@pfaff.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: UTC200401200944.i0K9iRE25868.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl writes:
> Yes, it seems we presently have no good mechanism / policy here.
> Patches are noise. If some kernel version works and another doesnt,
> one has to look at the diffs. Whitespace-only diffs are bad,
> I would never submit them. They also needlessly invalidate existing patches.
When one version of a source file works and another doesn't,
`diff -b' or `diff -w' usually does a good job of ignoring
whitespace changes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-20 9:44 [PATCH] fix for ide-scsi crash Andries.Brouwer
2004-01-20 12:04 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-01-20 13:56 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-20 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-20 18:46 ` Ben Pfaff [this message]
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2004-01-20 17:08 Pascal Schmidt
2004-01-20 20:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-01-20 20:58 ` Pascal Schmidt
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2004-01-20 14:59 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-01-20 19:04 ` bill davidsen
2004-01-19 22:56 Andries.Brouwer
2004-01-19 18:51 Pascal Schmidt
2004-01-20 7:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-20 13:54 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-19 4:35 Andries.Brouwer
2004-01-19 22:35 ` Willem Riede
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