Date:   Sat, 11 Mar 2023 15:49:03 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To:     Sumitra Sharma <sumitraartsy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: qlge: Remove parenthesis around single
 condition
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On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Sumitra Sharma wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Your suggestion for correcting the indentation to
> "[tab][tab][space][space][space][space](i ==." conflicts with the
> statement "Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig,
> spaces are never used for indentation" written in
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst

You can use spaces at the end of an indentation if it allows lining up
things with a similar purpose.

Look around at other examples of kernel code, outside of staging, to see
what others have done.

julia