




A few days ago, the Open Source Summit North America, organized by the Linux Foundation, concluded in Seattle, Washington.
At the summit, Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, and his friend Dirk Hohndel, head of Verizon's Open Source Programs Office, had a conversation about Linux development and related issues. ZDNet has compiled a summary of their conversation.
The first topic that came up was tabs and spaces in source code. One developer previously suggested replacing tabs with spaces to help the Kconfig parser read files.
However, Torvalds thought this was a bad move.
In the recently released Linux 6.9-rc4, Torvalds took special measures to deal with the Kconfig parser that couldn't handle tabs correctly. He deliberately included some tabs in the generic Kconfig file.