CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis

[der.herr@hofr.at (Nicholas Mc Guire)]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, palik imre wrote:

> Sorry for the silly question, but I have some issues with this checkpatch.pl warning.
> 
> I mean Documentation/CodingStyle says:
> 
> Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are never
> used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken.
> 
> But checkpatch.pl claims I should align to open parentheses.  These two things seem to be contradictory to me.  Could somebody clarify this?
>
leading tabs *followed* by spaces to align parameters to a function are fine
but for basic block indentation you never use spaces. so

	func(param1,
	     param2);

would be allowed but not
 
	if (something) {
	    if(something else) {

HTH

thx!
hofrat