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Message-Id: <201112210315.02171.lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date:	Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:15:01 +0800
From:	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
To:	b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: checkpatch cleanup - remove lines longer than 80 chars

On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 03:02:09 David Miller wrote:
> From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:59:41 +0800
> 
> > On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 02:32:30 David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
> >> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:38:24 +0800
> >> 
> >> > The long line was introduced with b26e478f8f.
> >> > 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>
> >> 
> >> I'm not applying this.
> >> 
> >> I tell people to make sure arguments line up correctly to the
> >> openning parenthesis on the previous line, and that is what is
> >> happening here.
> > 
> > I am not against lining up the arguments but what about checkpatch ? Are
> > we going to ignore the complaints or is this line limit about to be
> > changed ?
> 
> Refactor the code so that both constraints can be satisfied.
> 
> Is this so hard to understand?

Well, my crystal ball did not unveil that a checkpatch complaint you silently 
introduced would mean somebody else has to refactor the code. Guess I have to 
get a replacement unit.

Cheers,
Marek
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