Re: [PATCH] kernel/module.c has something to hide. (whitespace cleanup)

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:
> > 
> > At least with my config, if I remove both instances of UTS_VERSION from
> > init/version.c, the resulting vmlinux files are exactly identical with the
> > same sha1sum.
> > 
> > So maybe Jesper can use this to make *really* sure that there are no actual
> > changes with the patches, just whitespace changes.
> 
> Yeah, that does seem to work. I had not thought of that - thanks.

If you're going so far as to change the line numbering (which is very
much your intention!), then you'll also need to suppress any __LINE__s
for that check.  Switching off CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE should suppress
most of them.

Hugh
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