linux-kernel - Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length

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Date:	Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:18:22 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	apw@...dowen.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> wrote:

>      We all had the arguments about 80 columns, so here goes a relax.
>      Checking for 95 (or perhaps something better?), but of course we
>      print "80" in the output, because if you happened to get to 95, it's
>      "really time" to break it.

This will reduce the usefulness of checkpatch for those developers who
choose to observe an 80-column limit.

>      This also relaxes the tab doctrine, because spaces DO make sense --
>      especially when you view the code with a tab setting of not-8.

Non-tab-using code inevitably ends up having a mix of tabs and non-tabs
and looks a mess if tabstops are set to anything other than eight.

God I wish I had not been cc'ed on this.
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