From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
"Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [x86] kernel/audit.c cleanup according to checkpatch.pl
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:37:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199371044.3697.80.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103143711.GA29606@elte.hu>
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:37 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:05 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > not to make a big issue out of this, but when was the last time you
> > > tried to grep this way:
> > >
> > > grep -E "audit_rate_limit=[0-9]+ audit_backlog" */*.c
> >
> > Not precisely that, but I've certainly had greps fail because people
> > have split up strings to meet the stupid 80-character "limit".
>
> yes - but if you read my whole reply you'll see that i qualified it:
>
> >> That's pretty much the only grep pattern that would break. People
> >> usually grep on the constant portion of the string, so breaking up a
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> line along a variable boundary is perfectly okay.
Yes, you did. But you failed to provide any good reason for actually
changing it, either. Leave it as it was.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-03 11:19 Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-03 11:29 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-03 11:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-03 12:10 ` Tomas Carnecky
2008-01-03 12:16 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-03 14:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-03 14:29 ` David Woodhouse
2008-01-03 14:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-03 14:37 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-01-03 14:50 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-03 14:57 ` David Woodhouse
2008-01-03 16:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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