[dpdk-test-report] [dpdk-dev] |WARNING| pw59738 [PATCH v2 2/2] mbuf: add bulk free function

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:17:42 +0200
Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com> wrote:

> Dear Thomas - listed as checkpatch maintainer,
> 
> I think this warning is bogus, and is a bug checkpatch.
> 
> The line in question was deliberately indented using tabs to the current indentation level, and using spaces for the readability alignment. This makes the code readable in editors with another tab setting than 8 spaces. E.g. 4 spaces is my personal preference.
> 
> 
> Med venlig hilsen / kind regards
> - Morten Brørup

It is understandable that you have personal preferences, but projects like DPDK rely
on common style across all code. The collective decision has been made to keep a
uniform style similar to the Linux kernel.

No it is not a bug in checkpatch.