linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel-doc: transform documentation into POD

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Date:   Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:04:53 +0200
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: kernel-doc: transform documentation into POD

On Mon, 03 Jan 2022, Tomasz Warniełło <tomasz.warniello@...il.com> wrote:
> On 17/12/2021 00:12, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>>>  my $kernelversion;
>>> @@ -468,7 +306,7 @@ while ($ARGV[0] =~ m/^--?(.*)/) {
>>>      } elsif ($cmd eq "Werror") {
>>>  	$Werror = 1;
>>>      } elsif (($cmd eq "h") || ($cmd eq "help")) {
>>> -	usage();
>>> +			pod2usage(-exitval => 0, -verbose => 2);
>> 
>> Why the strange indentation here?  This file is far from pretty, but
>> that makes it worse.  (Other places too).
>
> Sometimes beauty requires cooperation. You can help it in your pager.
> If it's less, then try `-x 2`, `-x 4`, etc.

In kernel, tabs are 8 characters.

See Documentation/process/coding-style.rst


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center