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From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	mingo@elte.hu, rdunlap@xenotime.net, jschopp@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: update the 80-char-line check to allow for long strings
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:49:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080514104938.4b16c735@ephemeral> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210751346.10126.8.camel@twins>

On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:49:06 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> 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.. :-)
> 
> 

The point is that we tell people to make sure that their patches are
checkpatch-clean.  Let's make the tool reflect what we're actually
looking for.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-14 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-14  4:53 Andres Salomon
2008-05-14  7:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-14 14:49   ` Andres Salomon [this message]
2008-05-14 15:59     ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-05-14 16:23       ` Andres Salomon

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