Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -mm] documentation: update CodingStyle tips for Emacs users | From | Patrick Ohly <> | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:23:59 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:59 +0000, Johannes Weiner wrote: [formatting of line continuation in argument list] > Unfortunately, this seems to depend on the maintainer. Both styles > are used all over the kernel but Documentation/CodingStyle and > scripts/checkpatch.pl prefer what the above emacs configuration does.
checkpatch.pl didn't seem to mind either way. I haven't seen this particular aspect mentioned in the CodingStyle either.
> I doubt that people do tab tab tab space space space space space by > hand, so I strongly suspect that the tab-only zealots don't use emacs > which does this adjustment automatically. > > You should probably add linux-davem to the above or something. Or > name the coding style after the text-editor the target maintainer > uses :-)
One could also get really fancy and extend the path matching to pick the right style depending on the subdirectory ;-)
Thanks for the clarification. In the future I'll pay closer attention to existing code and turn the macro on or off accordingly.
-- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
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