Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword matching

From: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
	geert@linux-m68k.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	workflows@vger.kernel.org, mario.limonciello@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] get_maintainer: add patch-only keyword matching
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:07:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFhGd8rrHp1V4NpExpdNwWV4FAdLYhixLMB5HGygNSe7NKPUMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOdnGzTvSXf7VeyG8tPEONpqSgkDiBTmgJbUUWsRHzbc5JQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 12:52 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:09 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 14:31 +0900, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 2:01 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 04:23 +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> > > > > Changes in v2:
> > > > > - remove formatting pass (thanks Joe) (but seriously the formatting is
> > > > >   bad, is there opportunity to get a formatting pass in here at some
> > > > >   point?)
> > > >
> > > > Why?  What is it that makes you believe the formatting is bad?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Investigating further, it looked especially bad in my editor. There is
> > > a mixture of
> > > tabs and spaces and my vim tabstop is set to 4 for pl files. Setting this to
> > > 8 is a whole lot better. But I still see some weird spacing
> > >
> >
> > Yes, it's a bit odd indentation.
> > It's emacs default perl format.
> > 4 space indent with 8 space tabs, maximal tab fill.
> >
>
> Oh! What?! That's the most surprising convention I've ever heard of
> (after the GNU C coding style).  Yet another thing to hold against
> perl I guess. :P
>
> I have my editor setup to highlight tabs vs spaces via visual cues, so
> that I don't mess up kernel coding style. (`git clang-format HEAD~`
> after a commit helps).  scripts/get_maintainer.pl has some serious
> inconsistencies to the point where I'm not sure what it should or was
> meant to be.  Now that you mention it, I see it, and it does seem
> consistent in that regard.
>
> Justin, is your formatter configurable to match that convention?
> Maybe it's still useful, as long as you configure it to stick to the
> pre-existing convention.

Negative, all the perl formatters I've tried will convert everything to spaces.
The best I've seen is perltidy.

https://gist.github.com/JustinStitt/347385921c80a5212c2672075aa769b6

> --
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers