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Message-ID: <20170710093112.GI2928@vireshk-i7>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:01:12 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Frans Klaver <fransklaver@...il.com>
Cc:     Mitchell Tasman <tasman@...flabs.com>,
        driverdevel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [greybus-dev] [PATCH v2] staging: greybus: arche: wrap
 over-length lines

On 10-07-17, 11:30, Frans Klaver wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mitchell,
> >
> > On 09-07-17, 20:25, Mitchell Tasman wrote:
> >> Adjust formatting of various statements to keep line length within
> >> the 80 column limit preferred by the Linux kernel coding style.
> >
> > We try to follow that most of the time, but the end result should be easily
> > readable.  If it isn't, then we just ignore the rule.
> >
> >> Signed-off-by: Mitchell Tasman <tasman@...flabs.com>
> >> ---
> >> Changes in v2: Add back a missing space in a comment
> >>
> >>  drivers/staging/greybus/arche-platform.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++----------
> >>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/arche-platform.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/arche-platform.c
> >> index eced2d2..eedd239 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/arche-platform.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/arche-platform.c
> >> @@ -172,15 +172,21 @@ static irqreturn_t arche_platform_wd_irq(int irq, void *devid)
> >>               if (arche_pdata->wake_detect_state == WD_STATE_BOOT_INIT) {
> >>                       if (time_before(jiffies,
> >>                                       arche_pdata->wake_detect_start +
> >> -                                     msecs_to_jiffies(WD_COLDBOOT_PULSE_WIDTH_MS))) {
> >> -                             arche_platform_set_wake_detect_state(arche_pdata,
> >> -                                                                  WD_STATE_IDLE);
> >> +                                     msecs_to_jiffies(
> >> +                                             WD_COLDBOOT_PULSE_WIDTH_MS))) {
> >> +                             arche_platform_set_wake_detect_state(
> >
> > We don't break the lines like this in kernel to satisfy the 80 column width
> > rule. Surely, some places would have similar code, but in general this isn't
> > recommended. And that's why we never bothered about 80 column rule in this and
> > below cases.
> 
> In cases like this, one could argue that you should start looking at
> the level of indentation, rather than the line length per se. After
> all, the documentation states that "if you need more than 3 levels of
> indentation, you're screwed anyway, and you should fix your program".

And I completely agree to that :)

-- 
viresh

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