Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (core) Add trace events to _attr_show/store functions

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Oct 09 2018 - 16:42:47 EST


On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:39:37 -0700
Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Personally a checkpatch warning bugs me more than having an extra
> > line :)
> >
> Same here. If we no longer believe in the 80-column limit, we should remove it,
> not use it to hide other problems in the noise.

Yes, please, can we?

I personally hate the 80 character limit rule, because I like
descriptive variables and function names, which itself causes the 80
character limit to be broken. I find line breaks to avoid that limit
just makes the code look worse. Or at least up it to 100 chars.

-- Steve