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

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2008-04-11 01:52, SL Baur wrote:
>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.

We have these people too. And by large, I find spell fixes
better than oh-I-decided-to-run-checkpatch-on-existing-code bombs.
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