Re: [PATCH] trivial: Remove trailing whitespaces

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 06:23:00PM +0200, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
>> There are a number of unnecessary trailing whitespaces that have
>> accumulated over time in the source code. They cause stray changes
>> in patches if you use tools that automatically remove them.
>> 
>> Tested by doing a `git diff -w` after the change.
>> 
>> This could probably be turned into a pre-commit hook.

See .git/hooks/pre-commit.sample.

Expected test output is prone to flunk the whitespace test.  One
solution is to strip trailing whitespace from test output.

> scripts/checkpatch.pl ought to be made to check it.
>
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
[...]
>>  78 files changed, 440 insertions(+), 440 deletions(-)
>
> The cleanup is a good idea, however, I think it is probably better to
> split the patch approx into subsystems. That will make it much easier
> to cherry-pick for people doing backports.

I doubt that's worth the trouble.

Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>