linux-kernel - Re: [x86] kernel/audit.c cleanup according to checkpatch.pl

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Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:37:11 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [x86] kernel/audit.c cleanup according to checkpatch.pl


* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > not to make a big issue out of this, but when was the last time you 
> > tried to grep this way:
> > 
> >   grep -E "audit_rate_limit=[0-9]+ audit_backlog" */*.c
> 
> Not precisely that, but I've certainly had greps fail because people 
> have split up strings to meet the stupid 80-character "limit".

yes - but if you read my whole reply you'll see that i qualified it:

>> That's pretty much the only grep pattern that would break. People 
>> usually grep on the constant portion of the string, so breaking up a 
>>                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> line along a variable boundary is perfectly okay.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Ingo
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