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GNU Make manual [1] clearly forbids a tab at the beginning of the
conditional directive line:
"Extra spaces are allowed and ignored at the beginning of the
conditional directive line, but a tab is not allowed."
This will not work for the next release of GNU Make, hence commit
82175d1f94 ("kbuild: Replace tabs with spaces when followed by
conditionals") replaced the inappropriate tabs with 8 spaces.
However, the 8-space indentation cannot be visually distinguished.
Linus suggested 2-4 spaces for those nested if-statements. [2]
This commit redoes the replacement with 4 spaces.
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Conditional-Syntax
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whJKZNZWsa-VNDKafS_VfY4a5dAjG-r8BZgWk_a-xSepw@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.