linux-kernel - Re: coding style

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:05:07 -0700
From:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
To:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
CC:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	dave young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, apw@...dowen.org,
	jschopp@...tin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: coding style

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as 
> 4 characters.  If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9 
> characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who 
> will see 5 characters of alignment).
> 
> The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is:
> 
> "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
> 
> If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.

it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between 
indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major confusion 
with patch submitters.

I personally think that the sentence

   "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"

should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion.

Auke
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