On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, palik imre wrote:

> Sorry for the silly question, but I have some issues with this checkpatch.pl 
> warning.
> 
> I mean Documentation/CodingStyle says:
> 
> Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are never
> used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken.
> 
> But checkpatch.pl claims I should align to open parentheses.  These two 
> things seem to be contradictory to me.  Could somebody clarify this?
>
leading tabs *followed* by spaces to align parameters to a function are fine
but for basic block indentation you never use spaces. so

        func(param1,
             param2);

would be allowed but not
 
        if (something) {
            if(something else) {

HTH

thx!
hofrat

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