[ILUG] ILUG member gets slagging in LWN (fwd)

[Niall O Broin]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:21:57AM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:

> >       * Perhaps not the most exciting patch of the week: Padraig Brady has a
> > 	large patch which strips trailing whitespace from the kernel source.
> > 
> > bah!  Laudable, I say,
> 
> this was brought up on saturday.  it reduces kernel size by 200k.  sadly
> it's a 23meg diff.  wonder if it could be distributed in script form?

Padraig also submitted the line or two of Perl code which does the job. We
should have held Alan hostage until Linux agreed to run the script :-)


Niall