We have isspace() which may be used incorrectly as one might expect that
it has the same meaning as POSIX isspace(). Also, kernel has outdated
comment about of what is space and hard space exactely.

Signed-off-by: Ilya V. Matveychikov <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/ctype.h | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ctype.h b/include/linux/ctype.h
index 653589e..5c03748 100644
--- a/include/linux/ctype.h
+++ b/include/linux/ctype.h
@@ -11,9 +11,20 @@
 #define _D     0x04    /* digit */
 #define _C     0x08    /* cntrl */
 #define _P     0x10    /* punct */
-#define _S     0x20    /* white space (space/lf/tab) */
+#define _S     0x20    /* space
+                          0x09 - Horizontal Tab (HT)
+                          0x0A - Line Feed (LF)
+                          0x0B - Vertical Tab (VT)
+                          0x0C - Form Feed (FF)
+                          0x0D - Carriage Return (CR)
+                          0x20 - Space (SP)
+                          0xA0 - Non-Breakable Space (NBSP)
+                       */
 #define _X     0x40    /* hex digit */
-#define _SP    0x80    /* hard space (0x20) */
+#define _SP    0x80    /* hard space
+                          0x20 - Space (SP)
+                          0xA0 - Non-Breakable Space (NBSP)
+                        */
 
 extern const unsigned char _ctype[];
 
-- 
2.8.0

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