Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length

[SL Baur]

On 4/9/08, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  In http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/533,
>  SL Baur <steve <at> xemacs.org> said:
>  > The proposed two space change is ugly.  Can someone NAK it?
>
>  I'm not sure what "two space change" proposal this Steve referred to
>  and his rejection is based on not-to-sound aesthetic grounds.
>
>  The motivation behind our proposal is more than just aesthetic.
>  I believe that using tabs for indent and then spaces for alignment
>  is functionally better, works for everybody, and will eventually result
>  in a more readable code over time, hopefully leading to fewer bugs.

Tabs + a variable number spaces to match up logically with the
previous line is O.K.  Tabs + exactly two spaces is what I objected
to.  I only posted due to being the originator of the Linux Kernel Emacs
cc-mode style and cc-mode works like the former.

For whatever it's worth, my sentiments are on the David Miller side,
having been the lucky recipient of format changes only patch bombs
before.  I suppose you should be glad you don't have someone running
a spell checker on the entire source code.

-sb
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