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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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  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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