From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add check for too short Kconfig descriptions
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:39:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100324133939.GF20695@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAA0598.9000906@imap.cc>
> - -+ WARN("please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($length < 4);
> ++ WARN("Less than four lines of help text -- consider adding more detail\n" . $herecurr) if ($length < 4);
I don't want to give the number, because that just tempts people
to "game" the rule. Ideally they should just use as many lines
as needed, not just four.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-24 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-20 2:32 Andi Kleen
2010-03-20 13:31 ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-03-20 14:07 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-20 17:24 ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-03-20 18:03 ` Andi Kleen
2010-03-24 12:29 ` Tilman Schmidt
2010-03-24 13:39 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-03-24 22:31 ` Tilman Schmidt
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