linux-kernel - Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH] staging: lustre: code cleanup

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Date:	Thu, 7 May 2015 17:32:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
cc:	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Mike Shuey <shuey@...due.edu>,
	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"HPDD-discuss@...ts.01.org" <HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org>
Subject: Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH] staging: lustre: code cleanup - variable
 declaration spacing

On Thu, 7 May 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 03:36:05AM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> > On 2015/05/06, 6:02 AM, "Mike Shuey" <shuey@...due.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >Clean up spacing in some variable declarations, to be more consistent.
> > >
> > >It's small, but I need to start somewhere.  Please let me know if I'm not
> > >adhering to proper procedure for trivial cleanups.
> >
> > It's actually Lustre coding style to align the variable declarations.
> > Is this something that causes checkpatch.pl to complain?  If not, I'd
> > prefer not to change all of these declarations, since it causes a lot
> > of code churn for very little benefit.
>
> In theory it's nice, but in reality aligning variables doesn't work in
> .c files.  If you look at the patch, almost every declaration block uses
> higgledy piggledy alignment.

Probably the use of tabs and spaces is not consistent.

julia
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