Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl skip long lines | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:36:12 -0700 |
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On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 03:04 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 07:09:44PM +0200, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > > > since the number of long lines in the linux kernel is huge and since > > Greg Kroah Hartman in his google tech talk about the kernel > > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw) talked about probably > > ignore that criteria in the future, I thought the checkpatch.pl script > > should have an option to ignore checking for long lines. > > > > This would help finding the real errors and warnings, because they don't > > drown in line length warnings. > > Instead of adding another command-line option, I'd suggest to just use CHK > instead of WARN, so this check will be enabled with --strict. I wonder if there > is already consensus on deprecating the 80-char-rule?
Nope. There's a vocal contingent that doesn't like it though. An earlier thread and suggested patch below. http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/18/3
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