Re: [PATCH v2] mdio_bus: suppress err message for reset gpio EPROBE_DEFER

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:09:52 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Am 19.11.2020 um 22:41 schrieb Andrew Lunn:
> >>>> Doesn't checkpatch complain about line length > 80 here?  
> >>>
> >>> :)
> >>>
> >>> commit bdc48fa11e46f867ea4d75fa59ee87a7f48be144
> >>> Author: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Date:   Fri May 29 16:12:21 2020 -0700
> >>>
> >>>     checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate 80-column warning
> >>>  
> >>
> >> Ah, again something learnt. Thanks for the reference.  
> > 
> > But it then got revoked for netdev. Or at least it was planned to
> > re-impose 80 for netdev. I don't know if checkpatch got patched yet.

FWIW I had a patch for it but before I sent it Dave suggested I ask
around and Alexei was opposed.

And I don't have the strength to argue :)

I'll just tell people case by case when they have 4+ indentation levels
in their code or use 40+ character variables/defines, in my copious
spare time. 

> At a first glance it sounds strange that subsystems may define own
> rules for such basic things. But supposedly there has been a longer
> emotional disucssion about this already ..

We do have our own comment style rule in networking since the beginning
of time, and reverse xmas tree, so it's not completely crazy.