checkpatch: Does anyone care that comments are freeform aligned?

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 07:47 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> In the following patch extract, one line is indented with spaces rather 
> than tabs.  Is it intentional that checkpatch doesn't complain about this, 
> I guess due to the line being a comment?
[]
>  struct bcm_hdr_suppression_contextinfo {
> -	UCHAR ucaHdrSuppressionInBuf[MAX_PHS_LENGTHS]; /* Intermediate buffer to accumulate pkt Header for PHS */
> -	UCHAR ucaHdrSuppressionOutBuf[MAX_PHS_LENGTHS + PHSI_LEN]; /* Intermediate buffer containing pkt Header after PHS */
> +    /* Intermediate buffer to accumulate pkt Header for PHS */
> +	UCHAR ucaHdrSuppressionInBuf[MAX_PHS_LENGTHS];
> +	/* Intermediate buffer containing pkt Header after PHS */
> +	UCHAR ucaHdrSuppressionOutBuf[MAX_PHS_LENGTHS + PHSI_LEN];
>  };

checkpatch does not care when comments start in any
particular position or ensure comments have tabs
preceding them.

Does anyone care?

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