indentations

So, you can either get rid of GNU emacs, or change it to use saner
values.  To do the latter, you can stick the following in your .emacs file:

(defun linux-c-mode ()
 "C mode with adjusted defaults for use with the Linux kernel."
 (interactive)
 (c-mode)
 (c-set-style "K&R")
 (setq c-basic-offset 8))

use -kr and -i8 options with indent

(stands for "K&R, 8 character indents").