From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
apw@shadowen.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:08:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080406110823.GA18058@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080406100826.GD30987@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
>
> > This also relaxes the tab doctrine, because spaces DO make sense --
> > especially when you view the code with a tab setting of not-8.
> >...
>
> In the kernel all tabs are 8 spaces wide.
>
> When you view the code with a different setting that's your fault.
And for other kernel developers tabs are for indention, spaces for alignment.
Forget it - the world will not unify about this.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-06 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-06 4:54 Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-06 5:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-06 11:52 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-06 18:52 ` Joe Perches
2008-04-07 9:51 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-04-06 10:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-06 11:08 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-04-07 16:37 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-08 17:12 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-08 18:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 8:19 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 8:30 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 8:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 13:14 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 13:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:58 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 16:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-09 17:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 20:07 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-11 15:54 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 15:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-09 12:10 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 12:19 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 13:25 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 17:02 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 17:27 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-09 20:16 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-10 23:52 ` SL Baur
2008-04-11 4:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-12 0:26 ` Al Viro
2008-04-13 9:53 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-13 15:18 ` Al Viro
2008-04-15 9:09 ` Benny Halevy
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