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 <j...@joshtriplett.org>
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