Anything like this probably happens during the conversion of ACPICA code to Linux-style code. This conversion happens after every release (monthly) of ACPICA.
Specifically indent/lindent seems to do things like this, if I remember correctly. > -----Original Message----- > From: Baoquan He [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 2:43 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Moore, Robert > <[email protected]>; Zheng, Lv <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: Clean up whitespace of indentation > > PING! > > On 10/28/17 at 09:34am, Baoquan He wrote: > > Use tabs (not spaces) for indentation. > > > > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]> > > --- > > include/acpi/actbl1.h | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/include/acpi/actbl1.h b/include/acpi/actbl1.h index > > 6b8714a428b6..d8a4fc066abe 100644 > > --- a/include/acpi/actbl1.h > > +++ b/include/acpi/actbl1.h > > @@ -1438,9 +1438,9 @@ struct acpi_srat_mem_affinity { > > u16 reserved; /* Reserved, must be zero */ > > u64 base_address; > > u64 length; > > - u32 reserved1; > > + u32 reserved1; > > u32 flags; > > - u64 reserved2; /* Reserved, must be zero */ > > + u64 reserved2; /* Reserved, must be zero */ > > }; > > > > /* Flags */ > > -- > > 2.5.5 > >

