From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757182AbYDGJxe (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:53:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755898AbYDGJx0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:53:26 -0400 Received: from bzq-219-195-70.pop.bezeqint.net ([62.219.195.70]:36256 "EHLO bh-buildlin2.bhalevy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755886AbYDGJxZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 05:53:25 -0400 Message-ID: <47F9EEB8.3020109@panasas.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:51:52 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: Benny Halevy , Andrew Morton , Jan Engelhardt , apw@shadowen.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length References: <20080405221822.376f0018.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47F8B98A.1020704@panasas.com> <1207507971.1803.40.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1207507971.1803.40.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 06 2008 at 21:52 +0300, Joe Perches wrote: > 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. > > -- I have one such editor to date, Me. But I can not use it's output because checkpatch.pl forbids it, and I get scorned by my maintainers. So I think you got it reversed. First allow it then automate for it other wise there is no use, right? Boaz