Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31:44PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:38:14 +0100
> Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> 
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are 
> > > anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines
> > 
> > Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.
> > Especially useful with long printk() lines and long arithmetic
> > expressions.
> 
> Agreed. The fact I'm having to fix bugs introduced by incorrect printk
> wrapping confirms that for printk strings at least it is overzealous.
> 
> I'm all for it complaining about
> 
>   printk(KERN_FOO "<90 chars>", foo, bar + 37);
> 
> type bits when the foo, bar should be underneath to be visible but for
> straight quoted text too long it should not warn and try to get the text
> folded.

I think it should warn, but people have to be aware of the following:
- checkpatch errors are for stuff that really has to be fixed
- checkpatch warnings are for stuff that should be looked at
- the goal is not 0 checkpatch warnings but readable and bugfree code

A nice property of checkpatch is that it encourages to look closer at 
code like the following (it warns about the volatile):

		if (!netif_queue_stopped(netdev)) {
			netif_stop_queue(netdev);
			barrier();
			if ((((((volatile u16)nesnic->sq_tail)+(nesnic->sq_size*2))-nesnic->sq_head) & (nesnic->sq_size - 1)) != 1) {
				netif_start_queue(netdev);
				goto sq_no_longer_full;
			}
		}

> Alan

cu
Adrian

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