Re: [PATCH] numa.c: use spaces instead of tabs

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 07:59 -0400, Elena Ufimtseva wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 03.09.14 at 11:52, <dario.faggioli@citrix.com> wrote:
> >> On mer, 2014-09-03 at 00:18 -0400, Elena Ufimtseva wrote:
> >>> Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <ufimtseva@gmail.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >> I think the patch does what the subject says, i.e., converting tabs to
> >> spaces, and does it right (I've only one question, see below).
> >>
> >> However, does it make sense, while at it, to turn the file into a Xen's
> >> code stile compliant one? Because, if yes, there are other things than
> >> tabs-->spaces that needs fixing, I believe.
> >
> > Yes, indeed - we don't use a style like what results from this patch.
> >
> >>> @@ -121,83 +121,83 @@ static int __init
> >> allocate_cachealigned_memnodemap(void)
> >>>   * maximum possible shift.
> >>>   */
> >>>  static int __init extract_lsb_from_nodes(const struct node *nodes,
> >>> -                                     int numnodes)
> >>> +                     int numnodes)
> >>>
> >> Perhaps I am the one missing something here, but shouldn't this still be
> >> aligned to the '(' above (through spaces, of course)?
> >
> > Indeed it should.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> 
> 
> Dario, Jan
> 
> True to that there are few other things that should be fixed in
> regards to the style.
> 
> But about the tabs/spaces what patch attempt to change, as it says.
> 
> Jan, you say that such style is not used.. But numa.c uses tabs as
> :set list shows and its not Xen style either.
> Coding style says - 4 spaces for one level of indent. numa.c uses tabs
> and sometimes space between tabs.
> 
> I am looking at the rest of the files in xen/arch/x86/ and see that
> they have all same tab= 4 spaces for indentation.
> for example see xen/arch/x86/domain.c.
> I used this for vim to re-tab the file: set noai ts=4 sw=8 expandtab

I think what Jan meant was that simply changing tabs->spaces did not
result in any valid coding style, since Xen style differs from the
result in other ways too (e.g. spacing inside the spaces surrounding
expressions). 

> Linux has 8 spaces for tabs.. So I am lost here.

Was numa.c imported from Linux? In such cases we often (try to) stick
with Linux style.

Ian.