On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 08:12 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:55:49PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:35 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > From: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > I believe these sorts of whitespace only changes should > > not be applied to a stable branch unless it's useful for > > porting other actual defect fixes. > > I want to get clang build warnings down to the same level that gcc build > warnings are, so that they become useful in detecting new issues. That > is why I add these types of patches to the stable trees. New issues should be found in the current kernel. Backporting whitespace changes is value-free.
