From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
Cc: Linux Test Project <ltp@lists.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:33:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260327123351.GA1083266@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69c66196.5d0a0220.2a94f1.b1f7@mx.google.com>
> Hi Jan,
> > # C/Assembly source files, headers, and shell files use tabs
> > [{*.{c,h,S,sh},ver_linux}]
> > indent_style = tab
> > indent_size = 4
> LTP follows Linux kernel coding style, which uses 8-character-wide tabs.
> This should be indent_size = 8.
FYI I asked for 4 in v1 [1], Jan had originally 8 and I'm ok with following
kernel. It's just my personal preference to display tab as 4 spaces and not 8
(IMHO editorconfig plugins don't allow certain setup to be overwritten).
Kind regards,
Petr
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/ltp/20260310132227.GC39882@pevik/
> > # Python and Perl: default to tabs (most test files use tabs, checkpatch.pl which we modify)
> > [*.{py,pl}]
> > indent_style = tab
> > indent_size = 8
> Not 100% sure about this.
> The Python test files in the tree (e.g. pm_sched_domain.py, pm_ilb_test.py)
> all use 4-space indentation, not tabs. The default for *.py should be
> indent_style = space / indent_size = 4. Perl (checkpatch.pl) does use tabs,
> so it should get its own section.
> Also kirk uses 4 tabs indentation. So I guess we need to invert the two rules
> at this point.
> Regards,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-27 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-16 13:03 [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP Jan Polensky
2026-03-27 10:53 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
2026-03-27 12:33 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2026-03-27 13:39 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
2026-03-27 17:43 ` Petr Vorel
2026-03-27 18:25 ` Jan Polensky
2026-03-27 18:59 ` Petr Vorel
2026-03-27 15:29 ` Petr Vorel
2026-03-27 17:55 ` Jan Polensky
2026-03-27 18:25 ` Petr Vorel
2026-03-30 7:23 ` Andrea Cervesato via ltp
2026-03-31 19:59 ` Jan Polensky
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