linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/10] Staging: fbtft: Remove useless newline

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:45:18 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, noralf@...nnes.org,
	Fabio Falzoi <fabio.falzoi84@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] Staging: fbtft: Remove useless newline

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 07:55:42AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 10:42 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 08:43:14AM +0200, Fabio Falzoi wrote:
> > > No newline is needed since checkpatch doesn't complain about line longer
> > > than 80 characters for string literals.
> []
> > The original was correct.
> 
> The original was fine.
> 
> > There was no need to go over 80 characters
> > just because of a limitation in checkpatch.
> 
> How is checkpatch not emitting a message on
> either form a limitation?

It's not an easily solvable limitation, but the original was better than
the new patch.  This patch is all like "I've found a way to do something
bad and checkpatch.pl doesn't catch it so woohoo!"

regards,
dan carpenter

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