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On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 05:25:25PM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > - "whitespace change" that coverts existing driver example code
> > to be style(9) compliant, matching format of new driver code
> 
> for me this is strange, i always thought that we do not do patches which
> do whitespace changes only - which does make the repository bigger
> without any real benefit.
>                                                                                          
> is there a special reason why we do this here?
>

The reason is quite simple:

Ken added a new code driver example (for 5.X) just under a previous
example (for 4.X).  His addition was style(9) compliant, but not the old
previous example, so he did a whitespace change in the old code layout
to make this one style(9) compliant for more consistency etc.

Marc