Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation

Linus Torvalds
2012-02-04T01:28:00Z

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> Overly indented code should be refactored.
>
> Suggest refactoring excessive indentation of
> of if/else/for/do/while/switch statements.

I hate this patch.

Why? Because mindless checks like this would just lead to people
making things worse and intermixing spaces there instead.

That's the same reason the 80-character check has been a total
disaster. People shut it up by splitting long strings etc, and we've
had to change that 80-character test many times just to avoid the
crazy workarounds.

Don't warn about things that will just result in people working around
the warnings with worse code!

Linus