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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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