netdev - Re: [PATCH next v2 2/3] checkpatch: add ethtool

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Message-ID: <20231026223302.4gjjeh7inn3a3llq@skbuf>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 01:33:02 +0300
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@...gle.com>
Cc: GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH next v2 2/3] checkpatch: add ethtool_sprintf rules

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 03:24:54PM -0700, Justin Stitt wrote:
> There was some discussion here [1] but AFAICT I need to use EMACS
> or configure my vim in a very particular way to get the same formatting
> 
> But yeah, look around line 7000 -- lots of this pattern matching code is
> pretty hard to read. Not sure there's much to be done as far as readability
> is concerned.
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/137a309b313cc8a295f3affc704f0da049f233aa.camel@perches.com/

Hard to read because of pattern matching is one thing, but your
indentation is unlike anything else in this file. There are inner curly
brackets which are less indented than the outer curly brackets. I cannot
read/review this, sorry, I hope somebody else can.