Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] checkpatch: allow tabs in linux-headers

["Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>]

>> Make scripts/checkpatch.pl accept tabs in linux-headers/, instead of
>> changing scripts/update-linux-headers.sh to expand tabs when importing.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> index 929708721299..38232d4b25c3 100755
>> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>> @@ -1355,7 +1355,7 @@ sub process {
>>  		next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|cpp|pl)$/);
>>  
>>  # in QEMU, no tabs are allowed
>> -		if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\t/) {
>> +		if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\t/ && $realfile !~ /^linux-headers\//) {
>>  			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
>>  			ERROR("code indent should never use tabs\n" . $herevet);
>>  			$rpt_cleaners = 1;
>> 
> 
> Could you do the same for standard-headers/ too?

Sure, and when we are at it ... are *.pl files going to be reindented?

e.g. checkpatch.pl uses tabs consistently, get_maintainer.pl is a
horrible mix of tabs and spaces [1], and clean-header-guards.pl uses 4
spaces for an indent.

---
1: get_maintainer.pl assumes that tab is 8 spaces and uses 1 tab for
   every two consecutive indents and 4 spaces for indents that cannot be
   tabified, then tops the ugliness by also using 8 and 12 spaces for 2
   and 3 indents, respectively.