RE: list iterator spacing: clang-format vs checkpatch

[David Laight]

From: Joe Perches
> Sent: 17 January 2022 18:05
> 
> On Mon, 2022-01-17 at 13:47 +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > Hey again,
> 
> Rehi.
> 
> > Four years later I went through basically the same motions: "oh hey I
> > should clean this up", "I'll start with clang format", "oh cool it
> > adds spaces before the iterator paren so it looks like a normal for
> > loop to me", "that seems so reasonable; I love clang format", "oh no
> > checkpatch.pl complains; I hope it's wrong", "I wonder if anybody has
> > thought about this before", "oh, look, I asked about this already in
> > 2018."

Personally I think it should look like a #define expansion, not
part of the language.

I did notice it in the recent patch - and though it looked wrong.

	David

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