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Message-ID: <1435691026.12101.21.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2015 12:03:46 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.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, 2015-06-30 at 20:45 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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,

It's not a limitation at all.

> 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!"

I think either form is fine, but because either is fine,
it's not useful/better to change either.

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