Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:41:06 -0500 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers |
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Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes: > >> I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are >> anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines > > Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.
I think checkpatch is useful, but I've agreed from the beginning that the line length complaint is completely silly.
If a driver is full of lines of length >80, that's a problem. If it's just a few, that's more of a developer decision based on the individual line of code.
Jeff
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