On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 08:30 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 11:09 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 07:44 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 09:42 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: 
> > > > scripts/Lindent and scripts/checkpatch disagree whether the fields in a
> > > > statically initialized array should be blank separated.  
> > > > 
> > > > static struct ima_rule_entry default_rules[] = {
> > > >         {.action = DONT_MEASURE,.fsmagic = PROC_SUPER_MAGIC,.flags = 
> > > > IMA_FSMAGIC},
> > > > 
> > > > Lindent adds a blank before '.fsmagic', which checkpatch then complains
> > > > about (eg. commit 75834fc3).
> > > 
> > > Perhaps I don't understand what you mean.
> > 
> > > Lindent _doesn't_add a blank and checkpatch
> > > seems to do the right thing here.
> > 
> > Sorry, my mistake.  It's the reverse.  Checkpatch complains about the
> > missing blank, which Lindent then removes.
> 
> My suggestion is not to use Lindent.
> 
> If you want a semi-automated source-code reformatting tool,
> use scripts/checkpatch.pl --fix

Thanks, perhaps this suggestion should be reflected in
Documentation/CodingStyle.

Mimi

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