From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753194AbXFORyq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:54:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751291AbXFORyj (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:54:39 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:44642 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751052AbXFORyi (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:54:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4672D246.2040306@nortel.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:54:14 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cyrill Gorcunov CC: Jan Engelhardt , dave young , "Kok, Auke" , Willy Tarreau , LKML , Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: coding style References: <20070614184836.GA6520@cvg> <20070615045111.GU943@1wt.eu> <46721F18.8090303@intel.com> <20070615173206.GA8151@cvg> In-Reply-To: <20070615173206.GA8151@cvg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jun 2007 17:54:18.0350 (UTC) FILETIME=[320468E0:01C7AF76] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > Thanks to all of you for answering. Actually I was concerning about function > arguments' alignment (on separated lines) not about indentation. So as I see > it's a question of bent ;) And a simple rule exist - use tabs for indents > and spaces for alignment (when amount of spaces are < 8). That rule doesn't actually work though, an is imposed by tools limitations. 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. Chris