From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47B7C98C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1442442 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:53:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: James Bottomley In-Reply-To: <1507567045.3100.16.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Message-ID: References: <20171005192002.hxbjjdjhrfa4oa37@thunk.org> <1507303665.3104.13.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1507567045.3100.16.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Maintainer's Summit Agenda Planning List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, James Bottomley wrote: > Trivial changes seem to fall broadly into three categories: > [ ... snip ... ] > 2. whitespace changes (I ran checkpatch.pl on your file and it returned > these issues). Just to be clear on this -- I'm not taking such patches through trivial.git. > I don't want to open the whole spelling/whitespace can of worms, but > perhaps we could have a more meaningful discussion about the pattern > based issues ... for instance if we agree it's useful and coccinelle > can do it, then tree wide replacement at -rc1 might be a better > solution than ad-hoc application of hundreds of patches. Agreed, and I think Linus did this several times in the past and has no issues with doing so. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs