Documentation/SubmittingPatches: unify whitespace/tabs for the DCO
The Developers Certificate of Origin has a mixture of tabs and white
spaces which is annoying to view if your editor explicitly views white
space characters.
Also remove any trailing white spaces found in the file.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 1fa1caa..1671ce3 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@
Linus Torvalds is the final arbiter of all changes accepted into the
-Linux kernel. His e-mail address is <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>.
+Linux kernel. His e-mail address is <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>.
He gets a lot of e-mail, so typically you should do your best to -avoid-
-sending him e-mail.
+sending him e-mail.
Patches which are bug fixes, are "obvious" changes, or similarly
require little discussion should be sent or CC'd to Linus. Patches
@@ -387,11 +387,11 @@
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
- (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
- are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
- personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
- maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
- this project or the open source license(s) involved.
+ (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
+ are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
+ personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
+ maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
+ this project or the open source license(s) involved.
then you just add a line saying
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@
Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for
now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just
-point out some special detail about the sign-off.
+point out some special detail about the sign-off.
If you are a subsystem or branch maintainer, sometimes you need to slightly
modify patches you receive in order to merge them, because the code is not