[PATCH] staging/ks7010: formatting updates.

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Feb 21 20:02:46 UTC 2017


On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 11:48 -0800, Matthew Giassa wrote:
> * Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> [2017-02-21 10:47:31 -0800]:
> 
> > On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 09:32 -0800, Matthew Giassa wrote:
> > > * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> [2017-02-21 15:22:10 +0100]:
> > > 
> > > > The first declaration fit nicely on a single line.
> > > > The second one indeed has a few spaces instead of TABs in the
> > > > continuation line. But that can be fixed easily, without moving the
> > > > first parameter to a continuation line.
> > > 
> > > What would the proposed fix be? A combination of spaces and hard-tabs? I
> > > don't see checkpatch complaining about it, so that could work too.
> > 
> > Maximal initial tabs, followed by required spaces to align
> > to open parenthesis
> > 
> 
> Thank you Joe. I will change it accordingly. Is there a supplementary
> style guide that covers these finer details?

No, coding style just says

	Descendants are always substantially shorter than
	the parent and are placed substantially to the right

However alignment to the open parenthesis is a
pretty common style.


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