On Fri, 2017-04-21 at 18:16 +0900, damien.lem...@wdc.com wrote: > No functional change is introduced by this patch.
Hello Damien, The only tree for which I know that this kind of whitespace / coding style patches are welcome is the staging tree. In general such patches are not considered welcome because: - Such patches pollute the changelog and make it harder to use tools like git annotate / git blame. - Such patches make it harder for distro maintainers to backport patches from upstream kernels to distro (enterprise) kernels. - If any kernel developer has developed kernel patches for the sd driver against kernel v4.11 and wants to submit these after the v4.12 merge window then that developer will have to rebase (and retest) these patches on top of kernel v4.12-rc1. Whitespace patches trigger really ugly rebase conflicts and hence are painful for other kernel developers. Hence my request to drop this patch. Thanks, Bart.
