Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow single space before labels

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 06:30 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 06:21, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 04:24 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> feel free to extend however as long as the end result is no warnings
> >> for " foo:" ;).
> >
> > I utterly detest those indented labels and am eradicating them wherever
> > I notice them. There's really no sane reason to use them what so ever.
> > Diff can be taught not to get confused about them, see my earlier email.
> 
> sure, with enough shell code thrown at a problem, you can do anything.
>  the change that started these warnings was for an unrelated check.
> no one proposed warning on indented labels, nor is there any statement
> at all in the coding style on these.
> 
> considering you highlighted the biggest reason (diff by default does
> not handle them properly), i think that invalidates against your "no
> sane reason" statement.

I think telling people to change their diff rules (--show-c-function
isn't default enabled either) is a lot better option than to uglify the
source. These indented labels are totally annoying when reading code.