linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about using CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:19:16 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: warn about using CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 15:11 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 14:50 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> +                     WARN("CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL",
> >> +                          "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. " +
> >> +                          "For alternatives, see " +
> >> +                          "https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580\n");
> >
> > I'd much prefer this be on a single line and not using the +
> > string operator as that style is not currently used in checkpatch.
> 
> Hah. Okay. We should exclude checkpatch.pl from the 80 character check
> it warns about. ;)

;)

checkpatch is for .[ch] files, it isn't for anything else really.


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