Re: coding style

["dave young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>]

Hi,
The Documentation/CodingStyle says:

Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are never
used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken.

Regards
dave

2007/6/15, Kok, Auke <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:48:36PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >> Hi to all,
> >>
> >> a simple question the answer to witch I didn't find in CodingStyle.
> >> Look for a code snip:
> >>
> >>      err = foo(arg_a, arg_b, arg_c,
> >>              arg_d);
> >>
> >> the second line contains 'd' arg aligned with tabs only
> >> but it could be rewritten with more elegant style (by adding
> >> a few spaces) like this
> >>
> >>      err = foo(arg_a, arg_b, arg_c,
> >>                arg_d);
> >>
> >> so which one is preferred for the kernel?
> >
> > There is no "preferred", just one good and one bad :-)
> >
> > Ideally, you should use tabs only for indentation, and spaces only for
> > alignment. Keep in mind that there are people using different tab sizes
> > and that your tabs should not make it harder for them to read your code.
> > In your example above, you should use tabs from left up to "err", then
> > spaces to go from "err" to "arg_d".
> >
> > However, we know that some editors such as emacs are stupid in this regard,
> > because they fill with tabs then complete with spaces, so it's not always
> > easy.
>
> the current "checkpatch.pl" script rejects this notion and requires that you use
> tabs whenever you can (you can still align code within the length of one tab).
>
> Since in the example part (2) above there are 9 spaces needed to go from err to
> arg_d, it complains if you had used 9 spaces here. It only allows you to use
> tabs + n spaces (where n < 8)
>
> I personally prefer spaces, but the checkpatch.pl script does not agree, much to
> my dismay :(
>
>
> Auke
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