On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:17:42 +0200 Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> Dear Thomas - listed as checkpatch maintainer, > > I think this warning is bogus, and is a bug checkpatch. > > The line in question was deliberately indented using tabs to the current > indentation level, and using spaces for the readability alignment. This makes > the code readable in editors with another tab setting than 8 spaces. E.g. 4 > spaces is my personal preference. > > > Med venlig hilsen / kind regards > - Morten Brørup It is understandable that you have personal preferences, but projects like DPDK rely on common style across all code. The collective decision has been made to keep a uniform style similar to the Linux kernel. No it is not a bug in checkpatch.
