>> >> you must be having the same problem in viewing the patch file >> as me due to the email client itself inserting invalid spaces here and there. > > Nope. That's not it. > >> by the way, what tab-spaces are you using when you open it in vim ? > > I use vim as an editor as infrequently as possible. > > Your original patch used 6 tabs and 2 spaces. > Tab size in kernel style is always 8. > > Again, make sure your tab indentation is set to 8. > I see what you are saying. One question: Is it possible to include this kinda checking (multiline statements with paranthesis checking assuming tab indentation 8) in the checkpatch.pl script ? It would be easier to not make such mistakes in future with that kind of tool. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html