linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for Kconfig indentation errors

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Date:   Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:34:47 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for Kconfig indentation errors

On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 11:29 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
> > Kconfig should be indented with one tab for first level and tab+2 spaces
> > for second level.  There are many mixups of this so add a checkpatch
> > rule.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
> 
> I agree unifying the indentation is nice, and without something like
> this it'll start bitrotting before Krzysztof's done fixing them all... I
> think there's been quite a few fixes merged lately.
> 
> I approve of the idea, but I'm clueless about the implementation.

I think that a grammar, or a least an array of words
that are supposed to start on a tab should be used here.