Re: [RFC PATCH] checkpatch: Make the 80-character limit a --strictcheck only

[Richard Weinberger]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The 80-character limit is not a hard-and-fast rule, nor should it be
> applied blindly by people running checkpatch and fixing its warnings.
> Sometimes it's better to violate the 80-character "limit" in the name of
> readability, and when it isn't, it's often better to refactor into a
> function or otherwise restructure the code rather than just finding
> increasingly awkward places to break lines.
>
> Thus, change checkpatch's LONG_LINE warning to a --strict CHK instead.
> Anyone wanting to use checkpatch to check for this can easily enough
> enable --strict or turn on LONG_LINE explicitly, but it shouldn't be
> part of the default warnings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As I'm not a huge fan of the 80-character limit,

Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

> ---
>
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 47016c3..ed16a68 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2017,8 +2017,8 @@ sub process {
>                     $line =~ /^\+\s*"[^"]*"\s*(?:\s*|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/) &&
>                     $length > $max_line_length)
>                 {
> -                       WARN("LONG_LINE",
> -                            "line over $max_line_length characters\n" . $herecurr);
> +                       CHK("LONG_LINE",
> +                           "line over $max_line_length characters\n" . $herecurr);
>                 }
>
>  # Check for user-visible strings broken across lines, which breaks the ability
> --
> 1.8.4.rc3
>
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Thanks,
//richard
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