linux-kernel - Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

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Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:03:20 +0100
From:	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC:	Miles Bader <miles@....org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Subject: Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Feb 25 2008 23:13, Richard Knutsson wrote:
>   
>> Miles Bader wrote:
>>     
>>> Why do people even respond to these trolls...?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Obviously, this must to have been discussed before, with a clear conclusion.
>>     
>
> It has been discussed before, at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/12/19 .
>
> What is really frustrating is that some of the people which _do_ 
> enforce one style of the two (tabs-only or tabs-spaces) have only
> indirectly voiced their preferred style, as in
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/19/67 .
>
> Often it was just (1)"checkpatch flagged your spaces, hence they are 
> wrong" instead of (2)"in my tree, I only take tabs-only patches".
>
>
> Now back to coding, oh and don't forget send a patch for CodingStyle 
> since a mail without one is often taken even less seriously.
>   
What can I say? Doh! Am a bit surprised I had totally missed it during 
the mailbox-cleanups (to prevent lock-down).

Thank you! for the heads-up.
Richard Knutsson

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