lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Jul]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [greybus-dev] [PATCH v2] staging: greybus: arche: wrap over-length lines
From
Date
On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 15:01 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 10-07-17, 11:30, Frans Klaver wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.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@leaflabs.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 :)

Another thing to consider is to s/arche_platform_//
as the identifier lengths are just way too long.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-07-11 07:24    [W:0.461 / U:0.624 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site