On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 16:37 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote: > I have verified the patch with the checkpatch.pl, i think the > whitespace got introduced when i copied the patch from the file to > mail. > The Mail editor (gmail/thunderbird) automatically converts all tabs to spaces. > > What should be the ideal settings for VIM editor and lets say gmail/thunderbird. > > for VIM i have done: > > set tabstop=4 > set shiftwidth=4 > set expandtab > > Is there any thing extra i need to do? a little newbie help would be great :-) There's some information on Thunderbird here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/email-clients.txt I don't use it myself so don't really know if it's accurate. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html