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Message-ID: <20080514122319.054d9aaa@ephemeral>
Date:	Wed, 14 May 2008 12:23:19 -0400
From:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	rdunlap@...otime.net, jschopp@...tin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: update the 80-char-line check to allow for
 long strings

On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:59:26 +0100
Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:49:38AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:49:06 +0200
> > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > 
[...]
> > 
> > The point is that we tell people to make sure that their patches are
> > checkpatch-clean.  Let's make the tool reflect what we're actually
> > looking for.
> 
> We did have a mini discussion on this when Ingo suggested allowing the
> strings to run off the end of the line so that grep would work.  I did
> put together a patch then for this.  There was no real response to the
> suggestion we should take that recommendation into CodingStyle and
> thus into checkpatch.
> 
> -apw

I've yet to hear anyone say that this idea is awful...
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