linux-kernel - Re: Request for assistance

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Message-ID: <Y1Hby38PE/QVlRhF@Slackware>
Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2022 05:07:47 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tanju Brunostar <tanjubrunostar0@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        outreachy@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Request for assistance

On 10:39 Thu 20 Oct 2022, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>Tanju, some additional hints.  First of all, please don't send cleanup
>patches to address checkpatch --file complaints about overly long
>lines.  It's generally not worth the code churn.
>
>Secondly for code that *you* are writing, think about why you have
>lines which are exceeding the line width in the first place.  Is it
>because code is being nested too deeply, and perhaps some judicious
>function refactoring with good function names might make the code
>clearer?  Would adding some temporary variables that are judiciously
>named make the code look clearer?
>
>The rules about "thou shalt never have lines which exceed 78
>characters" are rules of thumb.  The high level goal is to make the
>code more readable and easier to understand, since good code is
>maintainable code.  And sometimes it's not just about where to split
>lines of code but whether there is a better way to structure the code
>so that long lines aren't needed in the first place.
>
>Cheers,
>
>					- Ted
Righto!! I failed to miss it my replies. That an editor can be trained or
customized to that way. Especially , vim and emacs.
--
Thanks,
Bhaskar

"Here's looking at you kid"-- Casablanca
https://about.me/unixbhaskar

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