Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Only emit LONG_LINE for --strict | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:33:03 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 19:24 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:05:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 08:46 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Regardless of the long-standing debate over line width, checkpatch > > > should not warn about it by default. > > > > I'm not getting involved here. > > I don't care much one way or another. [] > I'm not asking you to get involved in the Great Line Length Debate; > that's why I didn't attempt to patch CodingStyle or similar. However, I > think it makes sense for *checkpatch* to stop emitting this warning.
I think checkpatch should encourage people to write code in a style that matches CodingStyle as well as the predominant styles used in the rest of the kernel.
> I'm hoping that Greg will chime in, as the maintainer of staging and the > recipient of a huge number of checkpatch-motivated patches.
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