On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:25:10PM -0800, Peter Hsiang wrote:
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I noticed that in the latest version of the kernel (next), the formatting of the soc sound driver file max98088.c had been changed. Someone had changed all the tabs to space-fill. I thought the kernel coding standard encourages the use of tabs. Is the use of space-fill the new formatting preference for the kernel?
No, everything should use raw tabs.
I did not see this patch change on alsa-devel list. How do I find out where and when this was changed?
There's been no change in the kernel here - looking at the original mail from you adding the driver that used spaces rather than tabs. I expect that this was caused by a configuration issue in your mail system which caused it to rewrite the content, either the user agent or something on the server side.