linux-kernel - Re: staging: ks7010: Rename jump labels

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:32:04 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	"SF Markus Elfring" <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	"Wolfram Sang" <wsa@...-dreams.de>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Julia Lawall" <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: staging: ks7010: Rename jump labels

Hi Markus,

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 09:55:55 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > > How do you think about information from the chapter "7: Centralized exiting of functions"?
> > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/CodingStyle?id=47ef4ad2684d380dd6d596140fb79395115c3950#n389
> > 
> > I'm not impressed by this piece of documentation.
> 
> I would also appreciate further improvements there.
> 
> 
> > Back to the lack of space before labels, it's at best a personal preference.
> > If you insist on standardizing, I'd call it a bug in the documentation,
> > which should be fixed. One space before label is the way to go.
> 
> Would you like to contribute another patch for such a coding style issue?

I just sent a patch out, let's see what people think about it.

> > That being said... checkpatch does not complain about leading space
> > before labels. Not even with --strict. So why are you mentioning it here?
> 
> How do you think about a similar software update?
> 
> staging: lustre: Fix a jump label position in osc_get_info()
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c71d264543f759fea147734cb63de36397817534
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/21/401

Intending labels with a tab is wrong, so fixing it is welcome. I'd turn
the tab into a space instead, for reasons explained before, but no
indentation at all is still better than a tab.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support