From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] checkpatch: replace magic value for TAB size
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 07:52:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73a79b49d0183468a63876b170d1318d38c78d73.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190508122721.7513-4-borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 14:27 +0200, Antonio Borneo wrote:
> The size of 8 characters used for both TAB and indentation is
> embedded as magic value allover the checkpatch script, and this
> makes the script less readable.
>
> Replace the magic value 8 with the perl variable "$tabsize".
> From the context of the code it's clear if it is used for
> indentation or tabulation, so no need to use two separate
> variables.
>
> As side benefit of this change, it makes easy to replace the TAB
> size when this script is used by other projects with different
> requirements in their coding style (e.g. OpenOCD [1] requires
> TAB size of 4 characters [2]).
> In these cases the script will be probably modified and adapted,
> so there is no need (at least for the moment) to expose this
> setting on the script's command line.
Disagree. Probably getter to add a --tabsize=<foo> option now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-08 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-08 12:27 [PATCH 1/4] checkpatch: fix multiple const * types Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 12:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] checkpatch: add --fix for warning LINE_CONTINUATIONS Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 14:19 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-08 12:27 ` [PATCH 3/4] checkpatch: fix minor typo and mixed space+tab in indentation Antonio Borneo
2020-01-22 16:38 ` [PATCH V2] " Antonio Borneo
2020-01-22 17:26 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-08 12:27 ` [PATCH 4/4] checkpatch: replace magic value for TAB size Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 14:52 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2019-05-08 15:32 ` Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 17:02 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-08 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] checkpatch: fix multiple const * types Joe Perches
2019-05-08 15:26 ` Antonio Borneo
2020-01-22 16:38 ` [PATCH V3] " Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 17:43 ` [PATCH v2] " Antonio Borneo
2019-09-04 9:37 ` Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 17:43 [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 17:56 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-08 18:19 ` Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 18:36 ` [PATCH v3] " Antonio Borneo
2019-05-08 21:14 ` [PATCH v2] " Elliott, Robert (Servers)
2019-05-08 21:59 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-08 22:03 ` Antonio Borneo
2019-05-09 7:21 [PATCH v4] " Antonio Borneo
2019-05-09 8:03 ` Joe Perches
2019-05-09 9:26 ` Antonio Borneo
2019-05-09 9:39 ` [PATCH v5] " Antonio Borneo
2020-01-22 16:38 ` [PATCH V6] " Antonio Borneo
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