Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:04:35 -0500 | From | "Ray Van Tassle-CRV004" <> | Subject | Plea: re-indent the kernel source |
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With all the patching that has been going on, much of the kernel source code indenting is really messed up.
Linus, I plead for you to start the next major release (2.1.0??) with everything re-indented. I suggest using gnu-indent with the "-kr" option as closest to your preferred style. And, yes, the Great Implementor made tab stops every 8 characters, but 8 is just TOO BIG for indentation. Your point about limiting nesting level to about 3 is generally valid, but there are _lots_ of places in the Linux kernel where the nexting level is higher than that (bdflush is one of these). So I'd request using just plain "-kr" rather than "-kr -i8".
I find that often I need to run a module through indent to fix up the indentation so that I can read/understand it, but diff/patch will go wild if I leave it that way in submitting or applying patches.
Regards, Ray Van Tassle
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