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Subject: Re: smatch_scripts/whitespace_only.sh
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 15:38 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > I wrote a script to check that a patch only changes white space.

Perhaps you could use #define __LINE__ 0 to avoid
any vertical line position comparison checks?

> Maybe checkpatch could be changed to not complain about > 80 characters 
> when the line contains a string?

That's been at least partially done in commit
691e669ba8c64d31ac08d87b1751e6acfa3ff65e