linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: Fix warning of line over 80 characters.

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Message-ID: <1427578519.2715.13.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:35:19 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	Shirish Gajera <gshirishfree@...il.com>, w.d.hubbs@...il.com,
	chris@...-brannons.com, kirk@...sers.ca,
	samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Domagoj Tršan <domagoj.trsan@...il.com>,
	mahfouz.saif.elyazal@...il.com,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	roxanagabriela10@...il.com,
	Robin Schroer <sulamiification@...il.com>,
	dilekuzulmez@...il.com, DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>,
	Ayşe Melike Yurtoğlu 
	<aysemelikeyurtoglu@...il.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	tapaswenipathak@...il.com, vthakkar1994@...il.com,
	speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: Fix warning of line over 80
 characters.

On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 22:22 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 28.03.2015 um 22:18 schrieb Joe Perches:
> > On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 21:40 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Shirish Gajera <gshirishfree@...il.com> wrote:
> >>> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
[]
> >> Instead of blindly adding newlines to silence checkpatch.pl, what
> >> about reworking the code?
> >> printf("%s\n", ..) cries for a puts().
> > 
> > There is no synth_puts
> 
> So what?
> Fix it! :-)

Not sure that'd make the code better... ;-p

> the whole code is horrible and lines other 80 chars are the *least*
> problem.

Dunno about how horrible it is, my guess is it works.

> Submitting a patch just for the sake of silencing checkpatch.pl is a waste of time.
> After applying this patch the driver 0 better than before.

Agree with that.

And truly, checkpatch is only a guide.

Making the code better instead of merely style conforming
should be the primary goal of patches.

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