Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

[Jeff Garzik]

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are 
> > anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines
>
> Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.

I think checkpatch is useful, but I've agreed from the beginning that 
the line length complaint is completely silly.

If a driver is full of lines of length >80, that's a problem.  If it's 
just a few, that's more of a developer decision based on the individual 
line of code.

	Jeff




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