[Lustre-devel] [wc-discuss] Re: Lustre and cross-platform portability

[Liang Zhen <liang@whamcloud.com>]

On Apr 27, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> - there was no objection to converting the Lustre code from spaces
>  to tabs.  My proposal was that build/checkpatch.pl could require
>  tabs immediately, and new patches should be submitted with tabs
>  on all new/modified lines (and optionally all lines on small
>  functions to avoid messy formatting).  This will avoid issues
>  with current patches in flight, and also avoid "git annotate"
>  showing the jumbo replace-all-spaces-with-tabs patch for every
>  line in Lustre, and I think a good fraction of lines will be
>  updated in the next 9-12 months or more.  As we approach the
>  actual time for upstream kernel submission is close, then we can
>  make a final effort to clean up remaining lines in idle code
>  (which will also be unlikely to conflict with existing work).

Lustre also requires to align the first alphabet of members while defining a structure, but linux kernel only aligns any first character (for example, * for pointer), then which way we should choose?
we probably should update our coding guidelines ASAP.

Liang

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