Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:33:35 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li> Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/driverbasics chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20030925163334.GA574@nosferatu.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20030925152525.GA410@daemon.li> References: <200309251252.h8PCq7Tc093693@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030925152525.GA410@daemon.li>
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:25:25PM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > - "whitespace change" that coverts existing driver example code > > to be style(9) compliant, matching format of new driver code > > for me this is strange, i always thought that we do not do patches which > do whitespace changes only - which does make the repository bigger > without any real benefit. > > is there a special reason why we do this here? > The reason is quite simple: Ken added a new code driver example (for 5.X) just under a previous example (for 4.X). His addition was style(9) compliant, but not the old previous example, so he did a whitespace change in the old code layout to make this one style(9) compliant for more consistency etc. Marc
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