On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 07:24:49PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:05:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 08:46 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Regardless of the long-standing debate over line width, checkpatch > > > should not warn about it by default. > > > > I'm not getting involved here. > > > > I don't care much one way or another. > > > > I did submit a patch where I ignored 80 > > columns recently and I was told to try > > again by the maintainer. > > I'm not asking you to get involved in the Great Line Length Debate; > that's why I didn't attempt to patch CodingStyle or similar. However, I > think it makes sense for *checkpatch* to stop emitting this warning. > > I'm hoping that Greg will chime in, as the maintainer of staging and the > recipient of a huge number of checkpatch-motivated patches.
I have no problem with the existing checkpatch.pl tool and it calling out 80 columns as a problem that needs to be fixed. So I don't like this patch at all. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/