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

["Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>]

2016-08-09 18:39+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 09/08/2016 18:37, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>>>> 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.
> 
> I've sent a patch series to fix the most obvious issues in automated
> checkpatch email, it skips the tab check on imported Perl scripts.

I will base on that, thanks.