From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754537AbbKGUk4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:40:56 -0500 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:37920 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754234AbbKGUkw (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:40:52 -0500 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 23:40:19 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Joe Perches Cc: Evan Hosseini , lars@metafoo.de, Michael.Hennerich@analog.com, jic23@kernel.org, knaack.h@gmx.de, pmeerw@pmeerw.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: iio: Fix some character line limit coding style issues Message-ID: <20151107204019.GQ7289@mwanda> References: <20151107150610.GA3250@archBox.attlocal.net> <20151107163005.GI18797@mwanda> <1446919324.2701.1.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1446919324.2701.1.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 10:02:04AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 19:30 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > The original is easier to read, sorry. Checkpatch is a tool not the > > king of the world to obeyed at all times. > > Completely agree. > > Perhaps there could be some comment indicators added > to tell checkpatch to ignore certain warnings like > 80 columns. Applying or rejecting this patch was an easy call so it doesn't cause decision fatigue or drain my emotions. I feel like these patches are instructional so people learn not to trust tools. Checkpatch.pl is fine as-is. regards, dan carpenter