Re: [PATCH 5/6] staging: lustre: lustre: several over 80 characters cleanups

James Simmons
2017-06-15T16:06:38Z

> On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 11:01 -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > Cleanup many of the over 80 characters reported by checkpatch
>
> Please don't let checkpatch get in the way of lustre
> readability.
>
> lustre commonly uses very long identifiers.
> Long identifiers and 80 columns don't mix well.
>
> It might be simpler to declare in some document that
> lustre uses lines of up to whatever length and require
> that checkpatch should be used with the --max-line-length
> option when run on lustre code.

Greg would you be okay with this? If we changed to a max-line-length to
say 128 thay would mean very few checkpatch issues would remain.