Re: large patches

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On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:54:45 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> On 9/7/07, Andre Haupt <andre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have a driver (drivers/atm/iphase.*) which i try to get in conformance
> > with CodingStyle. I started by fixing whitespace issues (by hand). The
> > resulting
> > patch is about 177 kB because those whitespace issues appear on every
> > single line of the original file.
> > Is it ok to send this large patch to kernel-janitors and lkml?
> >
> > BTW, this driver has *LOTS* of additional style problems. All kinds of
> > mixed indentation to name one.
> 
> Send "Linus please do Lindent blah-blah" request to Linus. Before that
> do it yourself and verify that code doesn't change or something.

or do whitespace-only changes and verify that the code does not change
any, and put that comment in the patch description.

> Then start working from there.

ack

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