Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759765AbYB0WCi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:02:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755326AbYB0WCb (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:02:31 -0500 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:52845 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753897AbYB0WCa (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:02:30 -0500 Message-ID: <47C5DDE0.3040403@student.ltu.se> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:02:08 +0100 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randy Dunlap CC: SL Baur , Krzysztof Halasa , Guennadi Liakhovetski , Jan Engelhardt , bhalevy.lists@gmail.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates References: <1204062430.47c488def40a4@portal.student.luth.se> <20080226135444.f83a0536.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20080226213432.1388717b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20080226213432.1388717b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1350 Lines: 34 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:57:47 -0800 SL Baur wrote: > > >> On 2/26/08, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> >> >>> Hopefully an elisp expert will implement it. Vim people probably need >>> something like that as well, and the list of editors is a bit longer... >>> >> The proposed two space change is ugly. Can someone NAK it? >> >> -sb (The elisp guy who added the linux c-style) >> > > I would gladly NAK it, but most recent email from Linus about > coding style is that we are getting too detailed about it, > so unless there is some overwhelming need to change anything in > CodingStyle, I'm for no changes (or maybe even some removals). > > Not sure if it can be counted as an overwhelming need, just actually defining the variable-wide character to be use "properly". Saw the way through CodeStyle as the correct way to get the "replace 8-space alignment to tab" nulled (then fix/change checkpatch.pl). Actually, I see this as an quite simple question: is tab _the indention-marker_? If not, then why the refusal of spaces indents (or mix)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/