CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis

Sorry for the silly question, but I have some issues with this checkpatch.pl warning.

I mean Documentation/CodingStyle says:

Outside of comments, documentation and except in Kconfig, spaces are never
used for indentation, and the above example is deliberately broken.

But checkpatch.pl claims I should align to open parentheses.  These two things seem to be contradictory to me.  Could somebody clarify this?

Thanks,

Imre