[PATCH] checkpatch: print how much the 80 char limit has been exceeded

[Wolfram Sang]

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a3b9782..1874197 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@ sub process {
 		    $length > 80)
 		{
 			WARN("LONG_LINE",
-			     "line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr);
+			     "line over 80 characters, namely $length\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
 # check for spaces before a quoted newline
-- 
1.7.2.5

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