Re: [PATCH] Staging: et131x: fix coding style issues in et131x_initpci.c

[Joe Eloff <kagen101@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 22:29 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:17:08 +0200
> Joe Eloff <kagen101@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > >From e23e19537c4d62bc76ae982859d3c3225a45d9c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > >2001
> > From: Joe Eloff <kagen101@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:13:28 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] Staging: et131x: fix coding style issues in
> > et131x_initpci.c
> > 
> > This is a patch to the et131x_initpci.c file that fixes up all the
> > line lengths over 80 by the checkpatch.pl tool.
> 
> That is one area where checkpatch can be misleading. If you split
> messages like that it becomes hard to grep for them.
> 
> Where it is useful is where you have
> 
> 	printk("blah blah bah blah [120 chars]", functioncall(foo))
> 
> and it would hide things like functioncall(foo)
> 
> No argument about the comment ones however.
Noted and understand why you would want to grep and output when
debugging.
Will make better judgement calls thanks to these messages.

Regards,

Joe