Just for context, there used to be a style rule which said you need a blank line at the beginning of a function body that doesn't contain any local variables. We don't require this anymore, but there is lots of code in the tree which has it.

In general I would discourage this kind of patch, especially if it won't be MFCed to stable/13. If you don't MFC, then an attempt to merge a subsequent commit to stable/13 might fail due to merge conflicts.

It might be better to just abandon this revision then.