Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: update the 80-char-line check to allow for long strings

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

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:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:53 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > 19:29 * dilinger sends his patch to lkml for a proper flaming
> > > 19:32  Quozl> dilinger: it's called "patch hardening"?  ;-}  the
> > > heat of the flames makes the patch stronger.
> > > 
> > > I've wasted too much time massaging printk strings in order to
> > > satisfy checkpatch.pl.  Comments on this?
> > 
> > How about treating like its meant to be; as a guide instead of a hard
> > rule. That means you can ignore it with good taste.. :-)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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