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Message-ID: <1403749983.7977.6.camel@joe-AO725>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:33:03 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, gregkh@...ux-foundation.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Only emit LONG_LINE for --strict
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 19:24 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:05:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 08:46 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > Regardless of the long-standing debate over line width, checkpatch
> > > should not warn about it by default.
> >
> > I'm not getting involved here.
> > I don't care much one way or another.
[]
> I'm not asking you to get involved in the Great Line Length Debate;
> that's why I didn't attempt to patch CodingStyle or similar. However, I
> think it makes sense for *checkpatch* to stop emitting this warning.
I think checkpatch should encourage people to write code in
a style that matches CodingStyle as well as the predominant
styles used in the rest of the kernel.
> I'm hoping that Greg will chime in, as the maintainer of staging and the
> recipient of a huge number of checkpatch-motivated patches.
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