From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753403AbYENHtV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 03:49:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752981AbYENHtL (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 03:49:11 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:54633 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752735AbYENHtK (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 03:49:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: update the 80-char-line check to allow for long strings From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andres Salomon Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Andy Whitcroft , mingo@elte.hu, rdunlap@xenotime.net, jschopp@austin.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20080514005325.765178fc@ephemeral> References: <20080514005325.765178fc@ephemeral> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:49:06 +0200 Message-Id: <1210751346.10126.8.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:53 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > 19:29 * dilinger sends his patch to lkml for a proper flaming > 19:32 Quozl> dilinger: it's called "patch hardening"? ;-} the heat > of the flames makes the patch stronger. > > I've wasted too much time massaging printk strings in order to satisfy > checkpatch.pl. Comments on this? How about treating like its meant to be; as a guide instead of a hard rule. That means you can ignore it with good taste.. :-)