linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size

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Date:   Wed, 8 May 2019 20:19:41 +0200
From:   Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 7:56 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 19:43 +0200, Antonio Borneo wrote:
> > The size of 8 characters used for both TAB and indentation is
> > embedded as magic value allover the checkpatch script, and this
> > makes the script less readable.
>
> I doubt this bit of the commit message is proper.
>
> Tabs _are_ 8 in the linux-kernel sources and checkpatch
> was written for the linux-kernel.
>
> Using a variable _could_ reasonably be described as an
> improvement, but readability wasn't and isn't really an
> issue here.

Well, it depends on own skill with regular expressions in perl :-)

I will change the commit message focusing on the new command line flag
and drop this part.

Thanks
Antonio