[LTP] [PATCH v2 1/1] editorconfig: add consistent formatting rules for LTP

[Petr Vorel]

> Hi Petr,

> > FYI I asked for 4 in v1 [1], Jan had originally 8 and I'm ok with following
> > kernel. It's just my personal preference to display tab as 4 spaces and not 8
> > (IMHO editorconfig plugins don't allow certain setup to be overwritten).

> Sorry I missed that. I'm just wondering if editor configuration is applied
> only for visualization or also for typing. If it's applied for typing then we
> can't use 4 chars, otherwise we will have many issues with checkpatch.pl when
> verifying the source code.

To be honest I don't know (I haven't installed the plugin for my editor yet).
But I'd suspect that on indent_style = tab it just adds a tab and indent_size = 8
is only the representation.

https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/EditorConfig-Properties#indent_size

	Indentation Size (in single-spaced characters)

	Possible Values

		an integer
		tab

	If indent_size equals to tab, the indent_size will be set to the tab size,
	which should be tab_width if tab_width is specified, or the tab size set by
	editor if tab_width is not specified.

I wonder if it worked for us to set indent_size = unset for all indent_style = tab
(of course not for indent_style = space).

https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/EditorConfig-Properties#current-universal-properties

	For any property, a value of unset is to remove the effect of that property,
	even if it has been set before. For example, add indent_size = unset to undefine
	indent_size property (and use editor default).

@Jan?

Kind regards,
Petr