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Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:52:51 -0700
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On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 14:52 +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
> The idea is [] to allow for a bit more flexibility to
>  accommodate for a more robust indentation style.

Isn't this an editor/tools issue more than a checkpatch one?

I think you should first try to get the most frequently used
code editors and pretty printers (vim/emacs/eclipse/indent, etc)
to support the tabs to level, spaces to align style.

g'luck with that.