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Date:	Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:34:45 +0100
From:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>
To:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
CC:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach checkpatch.pl about list_for_each

Christer Weinigel wrote:
> By the way, what is the consensus on lines over 80 characters?
> checkpatch complains about the following:
> 
> WARNING: line over 80 characters
> #762: FILE: drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx_dma.c:720:
> +       printk(KERN_INFO "S3C24xx SPI DMA driver (c) 2007 Nordnav Technologies AB\n");
> 
> I can of course break this into:
> 
>         printk(KERN_INFO "S3C24xx SPI DMA driver (c) 2007 Nordnav "
> 	       "Technologies AB\n");
> 
> but in my opinion that becomes more even unreadable.  Would it be
> possible to add a special case so that checkpatch ignores long strings
> that go beyond 80 characters?  Do you think it is a good idea?

At the top of the file add a #define and use that in the code? Some 
drivers define their version/author etc that way and then just
printk(DRIVER_VERSION DRIVER_AUTHOR);

tom
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