We have two types of perl scripts in the tree. The ones from the kernel are mostly tab based where as scripts we have written ourselves use 4 space indentation.
Attempt to codify that in our .editorconfig Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@linaro.org> --- .editorconfig | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig index 7303759ed7..a04cb9054c 100644 --- a/.editorconfig +++ b/.editorconfig @@ -47,3 +47,16 @@ emacs_mode = glsl [*.json] indent_style = space emacs_mode = python + +# by default follow QEMU's style +[*.pl] +indent_style = space +indent_size = 4 +emacs_mode = perl + +# but user kernel "style" for imported scripts +[scripts/{kernel-doc,get_maintainer.pl,checkpatch.pl}] +indent_style = tab +indent_size = 8 +emacs_mode = perl + -- 2.39.5