On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 14:33 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 22:23 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:34:33PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > > I've seen far more examples of the 80-column limit making code less > > > readable rather than more. It's only really helpful when it forces code > > > restructuring, *not* when it just forces an arbitrary line break. > > > > So teach that piece of crap to complain about fucked-in-head line breaks > > like > > ret_val = > > leaf_shift_left(tb, > > tb-> > > lnum > > [0], > > tb-> > > > > lbytes > > - > > 1); > > in addition to obscenely long lines (and yes, it is a real-world example).
btw: checkpatch does suggest refactoring when there are 6+ indent tabs with an if/while/for/do/switch statement. so it already does bleat around there. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
