Re: large patches

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On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:13:37AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 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.
> 
That is what i did ;-)
So it is ok to send the patch?


Andre
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