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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>

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Stefan Beller and committed by
Jonathan Corbet e00bfcbf e71e2c6f

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Documentation/SubmittingPatches
··· 223 223 224 224 225 225 Linus Torvalds is the final arbiter of all changes accepted into the 226 - Linux kernel. His e-mail address is <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>. 226 + Linux kernel. His e-mail address is <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>. 227 227 He gets a lot of e-mail, so typically you should do your best to -avoid- 228 - sending him e-mail. 228 + sending him e-mail. 229 229 230 230 Patches which are bug fixes, are "obvious" changes, or similarly 231 231 require little discussion should be sent or CC'd to Linus. Patches ··· 387 387 person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified 388 388 it. 389 389 390 - (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution 391 - are public and that a record of the contribution (including all 392 - personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is 393 - maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with 394 - this project or the open source license(s) involved. 390 + (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution 391 + are public and that a record of the contribution (including all 392 + personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is 393 + maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with 394 + this project or the open source license(s) involved. 395 395 396 396 then you just add a line saying 397 397 ··· 401 401 402 402 Some people also put extra tags at the end. They'll just be ignored for 403 403 now, but you can do this to mark internal company procedures or just 404 - point out some special detail about the sign-off. 404 + point out some special detail about the sign-off. 405 405 406 406 If you are a subsystem or branch maintainer, sometimes you need to slightly 407 407 modify patches you receive in order to merge them, because the code is not