checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size
authorAntonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 03:11:07 +0000 (20:11 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 7 Apr 2020 17:43:43 +0000 (10:43 -0700)
commit713a09de9ca9ac6277cb43d79967e7852238f998
tree20e55655e36e882fb61f37cdb24f771b1948e23f
parent7b18496cbc9af07f5dfbb1ce56ea839344061b54
checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size

Linux kernel coding style requires a size of 8 characters for both TAB and
indentation, and such value is embedded as magic value allover the
checkpatch script.

This makes hard to reuse the script by other projects with different
requirements in their coding style (e.g.  OpenOCD [1] requires TAB size of
4 characters [2]).

Replace the magic value 8 with a variable.

Add a command-line option "--tab-size" to let the user select a
TAB size value other than 8.

[1] http://openocd.org/
[2] http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/stylec.html#styleformat

Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Ahlén <erik.ahlen@avalonenterprise.com>
Signed-off-by: Spencer Oliver <spen@spen-soft.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122163852.124417-3-borneo.antonio@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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