linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/4] pwm: sifive: Add a driver for SiFive SoC PWM

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Date:   Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:44:04 +0200
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>, palmer@...ive.com,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mark.rutland@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/4] pwm: sifive: Add a driver for SiFive SoC PWM

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:11:29AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
[...]
> > +static struct platform_driver sifive_pwm_driver = {
> > +	.probe = sifive_pwm_probe,
> > +	.remove = sifive_pwm_remove,
> > +	.driver = {
> > +		.name = "pwm-sifivem",
> > +		.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(sifive_pwm_of_match),
> > +	},
> > +};
> 
> What about using tabs to align this a little more nicely?
> 
> static struct platform_driver sifive_pwm_driver = {
> 	.probe			= sifive_pwm_probe,
> 	.remove			= sifive_pwm_remove,
> 	.driver = {
> 		.name		= "pwm-sifivem",
> 		.of_match_table	= of_match_ptr(sifive_pwm_of_match),
> 	},
> };

I discourage people from doing that because down the road somebody might
add a field here that's longer than the alignment tabs and then either
it becomes ugly or they either have to realign everything to keep it
pretty. Single spaces around '=' don't have that problem if used
consistently.

Thierry

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