Re: [PATCH v2] Staging: iio: adc: fix line over 80 characters

Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-10-23T10:50:02Z

On 10/22/2014 06:21 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:56:47PM -0500, Brian Vandre wrote:
>> This fixes the 2 checkpatch.pl warnings:
>> WARNING: line over 80 characters
>>
> please check your patch with --strict option of checkpatch.pl , and you will get :
> "Alignment should match open parenthesis" .

Those checkpatch warnings are suggestions, not hard requirements. The idea
is to improve code legibility, but if the change has the adverse effect the
warning can and should be ignored. Also when making a change you should keep
the existing indention style of a file.

- Lars