Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Make the 80-character limit a --strict check only

[Greg KH <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:18:43PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> The 80-character limit is not a hard-and-fast rule, nor should it be
> applied blindly by people running checkpatch and fixing its warnings.
> Sometimes it's better to violate the 80-character "limit" in the name of
> readability, and when it isn't, it's often better to refactor into a
> function or otherwise restructure the code rather than just finding
> increasingly awkward places to break lines.
> 
> Thus, change checkpatch's LONG_LINE warning to a --strict CHK instead.
> Anyone wanting to use checkpatch to check for this can easily enough
> enable --strict or turn on LONG_LINE explicitly, but it shouldn't be
> part of the default warnings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>