From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: apw@shadowen.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:18:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080405221822.376f0018.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804060653020.30794@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:54:54 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
> We all had the arguments about 80 columns, so here goes a relax.
> Checking for 95 (or perhaps something better?), but of course we
> print "80" in the output, because if you happened to get to 95, it's
> "really time" to break it.
This will reduce the usefulness of checkpatch for those developers who
choose to observe an 80-column limit.
> This also relaxes the tab doctrine, because spaces DO make sense --
> especially when you view the code with a tab setting of not-8.
Non-tab-using code inevitably ends up having a mix of tabs and non-tabs
and looks a mess if tabstops are set to anything other than eight.
God I wish I had not been cc'ed on this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-06 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-06 4:54 Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-06 5:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-04-06 11:52 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-06 18:52 ` Joe Perches
2008-04-07 9:51 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-04-06 10:08 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-06 11:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-07 16:37 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-08 17:12 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-08 18:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 8:19 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 8:30 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 8:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 13:14 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 13:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:58 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 16:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-09 17:43 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-09 20:07 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-11 15:54 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 15:14 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-04-09 12:10 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 12:19 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 13:25 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-09 17:02 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-09 17:27 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-09 20:16 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-04-10 23:52 ` SL Baur
2008-04-11 4:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-12 0:26 ` Al Viro
2008-04-13 9:53 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-13 15:18 ` Al Viro
2008-04-15 9:09 ` Benny Halevy
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