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

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:28:02 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@...el.com>
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, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:23:59AM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> 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.

This is from CodingStyle:

	Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig,
	spaces are never used for indentation, and the above example
	is deliberately broken.

> > 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.

That's probably the best way to judge such details, agreed.  Integrate
well with the surrounding code.

	Hannes
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