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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912180942480.3712@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:43:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Change long line warning to 105
chars
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:12:24PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 23:29 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > > Yeah, but I respectfully submit that if the regexp '^\t{6}' matches a non-
> > > continuation line, it's probably in its rights to whinge.
> > > grep -r -P '^\t{7:}(?!(.*,$|.*\);$))' . | more
> > > produces a whole lot of "this can't end well" output.
> >
> > I think this is a good test to add to checkpatch.
> >
> > Add 105 character long line WARN test
> > Add 80 character long line STRICT test
> > Add 6+ leading indent tabs test, consider restructuring
> >
> This looks like a reasonable compromise.
I like this. Except I think the indent test should count spaces too some
way. Or do we already warn about excessive space that should be tabs?
Linus
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