linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Categorize some long line length checks

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Date:	Sat, 23 May 2015 11:13:31 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	oleg.drokin@...el.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org,
	lustre-deve@...ts.lustre.org, Mike Shuey <shuey@...due.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Categorize some long line length checks

On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 21:07 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I feel like the lustre headers could be fit into 80 characters without
> losing very much.

Maybe.

> No one uses the complicated options on checkpatch anyway, they just grep
> away the warnings they don't like.

That'd be false.  Other projects like u-boot do.

> Newbies especially don't use them.

True, but capability exclusion doesn't seem the
right path.

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