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From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: update the 80-char-line check to allow for
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On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:59:26 +0100
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:49:38AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:49:06 +0200
> > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > 
[...]
> > 
> > The point is that we tell people to make sure that their patches are
> > checkpatch-clean.  Let's make the tool reflect what we're actually
> > looking for.
> 
> We did have a mini discussion on this when Ingo suggested allowing the
> strings to run off the end of the line so that grep would work.  I did
> put together a patch then for this.  There was no real response to the
> suggestion we should take that recommendation into CodingStyle and
> thus into checkpatch.
> 
> -apw

I've yet to hear anyone say that this idea is awful...