Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: Line layout whitespace fixes

From: Ian Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 00:44:03 +0100

On 30/09/15 23:17, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:10:06AM +0100, Ian Morris wrote:
>> Fixes various whitespace issues detected by checkpatch (e.g. adding spaces between operations, replacing spaces with tabs, etc)
>>
>> No changes detected by objdiff.
> These large cleanup patch causes problems for -stable maintainers,
> since they have more conflicts when backporting stuff.
>
> I'd rather keep this back.
>
Please help me understand: until when do you propose such changes be 
deferred? Or are you suggesting we should apply changes more 
incrementally somehow?