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Message-ID: <1276407372.1449.33.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:36:12 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de> Cc: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@...qy.com>, apw@...onical.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl skip long lines On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 03:04 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 07:09:44PM +0200, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > > > since the number of long lines in the linux kernel is huge and since > > Greg Kroah Hartman in his google tech talk about the kernel > > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw) talked about probably > > ignore that criteria in the future, I thought the checkpatch.pl script > > should have an option to ignore checking for long lines. > > > > This would help finding the real errors and warnings, because they don't > > drown in line length warnings. > > Instead of adding another command-line option, I'd suggest to just use CHK > instead of WARN, so this check will be enabled with --strict. I wonder if there > is already consensus on deprecating the 80-char-rule? Nope. There's a vocal contingent that doesn't like it though. An earlier thread and suggested patch below. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/18/3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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