On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 7:56 PM Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 19:43 +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. > > I doubt this bit of the commit message is proper. > > Tabs _are_ 8 in the linux-kernel sources and checkpatch > was written for the linux-kernel. > > Using a variable _could_ reasonably be described as an > improvement, but readability wasn't and isn't really an > issue here.
Well, it depends on own skill with regular expressions in perl :-) I will change the commit message focusing on the new command line flag and drop this part. Thanks Antonio
