On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 04:37:19PM +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 That's not correct for editing kernel source. You should have: set tapstop=8 set shiftwidth=8 set noexpandtab Seth -- 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