From: Roland Dreier Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/SubmitChecklist~add-info-about-whitespace-to-submitchecklist Documentation/SubmitChecklist --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist~add-info-about-whitespace-to-submitchecklist +++ a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -80,3 +80,7 @@ kernel patches. 23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. + +24: Avoid whitespace damage such as indenting with spaces or whitespace + at the end of lines. You can test this by feeding the patch to + "git apply --check --whitespace=error-all" _