From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42318) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYykE-00013Z-2f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:54:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYykB-0002sV-1v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:54:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZYykA-0002sQ-Td for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:54:07 -0400 References: <1441619584-17992-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <1441619584-17992-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <87wpw25kdv.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55EDB31A.1010402@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:54:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87wpw25kdv.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] CODING_STYLE, checkpatch: update line length rules List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Eduardo Habkost , Andreas Faerber On 07/09/2015 17:17, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> > + } elsif ($length > 76 && !($rawline =~ /^\+ \* /)) { >> > + # The BSD license blurb has 80 character lines. >> > + # Avoid warning on cut-and-pasted license text. > Why not simply reflow all the offending license blurbs? > > Want me to prep such a patch? Actually there are other license blurbs with 80-character lines. It's just that for the GPL we just refer to the COPYING file most of the time, instead of TYPING SEVERAL LINES ABOUT MERCHANTABILITY, whatever it is. Paolo