Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v10] staging: fbtft: add tearing signal detect | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 2021 09:42:56 -0800 |
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On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 17:49 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 03:25:20PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > Andy and Joe, there's something wrong here that is missing the fact that > > a line is being indented with spaces and not tabs in the patch > > at https://lore.kernel.org/r/1611754972-151016-1-git-send-email-zhangxuezhi3@gmail.com > > > > Any ideas what broke? > > /*Tearing Effect Line On*/ > > Comments are the exception to the "no spaces at the start of a line" > rule. I was expecting that the kbuild-bot would send a Smatch warning > for inconsistent indenting, but comments are not counted there either. > > I'm sort of surprised that we don't have checkpatch rule about the > missing space characters. It should be: "/* Tearing Effect Line On */".
You could always write your own rule...
checkpatch doesn't care if a comment looks like
/********************/ or /*foobarfoobarfoobar*/
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