linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/3] mtd/nand: fix coding style issue in drivers/mtd/nand/fsl

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Message-ID: <1321362603.1932.67.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:10:03 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"Jenkins, Clive" <Clive.Jenkins@...ox.com>
Cc:	b35362@...escale.com, Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	scottwood@...escale.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3] mtd/nand: fix coding style issue in
 drivers/mtd/nand/fsl_elbc.c

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 11:26 +0000, Jenkins, Clive wrote:
> > fix whitespaces,tabs coding style issue and ...
> 
> In my opinion this code was already correct, and would display correctly
> at any TAB setting. This patch changes it so that it displays
> incorrectly at all TAB settings other than 8.

Any tab setting other than 8 is incorrect and should not be used for
Linux code. If I view it in a proportionally-spaced font, it's not going
to line up right either. Fix your editor, if that's an issue for you.

-- 
dwmw2

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