Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:18:22 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length |
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On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
> We all had the arguments about 80 columns, so here goes a relax. > Checking for 95 (or perhaps something better?), but of course we > print "80" in the output, because if you happened to get to 95, it's > "really time" to break it.
This will reduce the usefulness of checkpatch for those developers who choose to observe an 80-column limit.
> This also relaxes the tab doctrine, because spaces DO make sense -- > especially when you view the code with a tab setting of not-8.
Non-tab-using code inevitably ends up having a mix of tabs and non-tabs and looks a mess if tabstops are set to anything other than eight.
God I wish I had not been cc'ed on this.
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