linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <24653.1261110557@localhost>
Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:29:17 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Cc:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:29:25 EST, Mikulas Patocka said:

> There is no need to make a script for it. The script isn't so smart to 
> tell what is understandable and what is nto.

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. My favorite so far:

fs/reisersfs/do_balan.c, lines 460-477 (note: 3 leading tabs elided)

				leaf_paste_entries(&bi,
						   n +
						   item_pos
						   -
						   ret_val,
						   l_pos_in_item,
						   1,
						   (struct
						    reiserfs_de_head
						    *)
						   body,
						   body
						   +
						   DEH_SIZE,
						   tb->
						   insert_size
						   [0]
				    );

Yes, that used to be 24 more columns to the right.  Gaak.


Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped