linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm] documentation: update CodingStyle tips for Emacs users

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Message-Id: <1234952639.23768.32.camel@ecld0pohly>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:23:59 +0100
From:	Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@...el.com>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] documentation: update CodingStyle tips for Emacs
	users

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:59 +0000, Johannes Weiner wrote:
[formatting of line continuation in argument list]
> Unfortunately, this seems to depend on the maintainer.  Both styles
> are used all over the kernel but Documentation/CodingStyle and
> scripts/checkpatch.pl prefer what the above emacs configuration does.

checkpatch.pl didn't seem to mind either way. I haven't seen this
particular aspect mentioned in the CodingStyle either.

> I doubt that people do tab tab tab space space space space space by
> hand, so I strongly suspect that the tab-only zealots don't use emacs
> which does this adjustment automatically.
> 
> You should probably add linux-davem to the above or something.  Or
> name the coding style after the text-editor the target maintainer
> uses :-)

One could also get really fancy and extend the path matching to pick the
right style depending on the subdirectory ;-)

Thanks for the clarification. In the future I'll pay closer attention to
existing code and turn the macro on or off accordingly.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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