Re: [patch] checkpatch: relax spacing and line length

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:01:14PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > To justify changing checkpatch to loosen its checks I would hope to see
> > an agreed to change to the CodingStyle detailing actually what is now
> > acceptable.  
> 
> Here was a concrete proposal (with patch for CodingStyle) from my side some 
> time ago:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/644306

Yeah, that was a good example of how to go about changinging things.  As
I said on that thread I would happily change checkpatch to follow suit.
Oddly for a CodingStyle discussion there was very "discussion" at all.
It feels like people are scared of the passion that often errupts in
discussions over style.

On that particular suggestion, I would probabally be in favour, and
slightly happier to have the string on the printk line for consistency
even though that would violate the "don't hide information" rule.

-apw
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