Re: Write and Submit Your First Kernel Patch

Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.git,gmane.linux.newbie,gmane.linux.kernel.janitors
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Kevyn-Alexandre Paré <[email protected]> writes:
>>> 0001-Staging-comedi-driver-fix-coding-style.patch:27: ERROR: trailing whitespace
>>> 0001-Staging-comedi-driver-fix-coding-style.patch:35: ERROR: trailing whitespace
>>> 0001-Staging-comedi-driver-fix-coding-style.patch:43: ERROR: trailing whitespace
>>> 0001-Staging-comedi-driver-fix-coding-style.patch:53: ERROR: trailing whitespace
>>>
>>> I have done a step by step explanation of what I have done:
>>> http://kapare.blogspot.com/2009/09/write-and-submit-your-first-kernel.html>>
>>> It seem to me that the whitespace are added after I do this command:
>>> git format-patch -s -n master..mybranch

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Do "git rebase --whitespace=fix master" and git will try to fix whitespaces.

Kevyn-Alexandre Paré <[email protected]> writes:
> thx Michal,
>
> But the problem remain:

If I'm not mistaken "git rebase --whitespace=fix master" should do the
trick.  I'm out of good ideas if it does not.  Best I can advice is to
fix the patch by hand -- just edit it in some decent editor and remove
trailing whitespaces from those lines.

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