Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:19:43AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:01:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> writes:
> > >
> > > To justify changing checkpatch to loosen its checks I would hope to see
> > > an agreed to change to the CodingStyle detailing actually what is now
> > > acceptable.  
> > 
> > Here was a concrete proposal (with patch for CodingStyle) from my side some 
> > time ago:
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/644306
> 
> Yeah, that was a good example of how to go about changinging things.  As
> I said on that thread I would happily change checkpatch to follow suit.
> Oddly for a CodingStyle discussion there was very "discussion" at all.
> It feels like people are scared of the passion that often errupts in
> discussions over style.
> 
> On that particular suggestion, I would probabally be in favour, and
> slightly happier to have the string on the printk line for consistency
> even though that would violate the "don't hide information" rule.

Oh, and if people felt that the concensus was for something to be
implemented and that you are waiting for me to implement the change in
checkpatch; please say so.

-apw