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From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 02:57:32 +0000
Subject: Re: checkpatch guide for newbies
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To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>, Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

Am 26.09.2013 04:52, schrieb Alexander Holler:

> I'm aware of people which do nest 8 levels deep just to avoid a return,
> break or goto.
> 
> But trying to limit that by limiting the line length is like ...
> (choose your own own misguided comparison, it's too late for me I
> currently only meorize some of those which don't make sense in english)

But I'm still able to offer a solution: ;)

limit the number of tabs, not the line length (at least not to 80).

Regards,

Alexander Holler