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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:22:55 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
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       dave young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
       apw@shadowen.org, jschopp@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: coding style
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[Kok, Auke - Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:05:07AM -0700]
| Chris Friesen wrote:
| >Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as 
| >4 characters.  If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9 
| >characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who 
| >will see 5 characters of alignment).
| >
| >The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is:
| >
| >"use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
| >
| >If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.
| 
| it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between 
| indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major 
| confusion with patch submitters.
| 
| I personally think that the sentence
| 
|   "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"

Absoulutely agreed with you! There sould be someting making strict rule
over alignment (as it done for the tabs size).

| 
| should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion.
| 
| Auke
| 

		Cyrill