[pnfs] white spaces in linux-pnfs-2.6-latest.git

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 08:50:30AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>  Patches with large amounts of whitespace errors (large == so many that
> they cannot be fixed up by me by hand) will be rejected. I'm not going
> to accept a solution that first introduces errors, then removes them.
> The main reason is that utilities like 'lindent' tend to do a lot of
> other useless and screwed up reformatting that needs to be cleaned up
> afterwards too.

The existing patches are going to need lots of reworking anyway to meet
the requirement that individual patches don't introduce new bugs.  (So
for example any commit that fixes a bug from an earlier pNFS work is
eventually going to have to be reordered and folded into the change that
introduced the bug.)

So as long as someone's doing that sort of thing, I don't think it'll be
that much more trouble just to run through the patches and fix up
any whitespace problems they introduce.

--b.