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

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 14:33 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 22:23 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:34:33PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > 
> > > I've seen far more examples of the 80-column limit making code less
> > > readable rather than more.  It's only really helpful when it forces code
> > > restructuring, *not* when it just forces an arbitrary line break.
> > 
> > So teach that piece of crap to complain about fucked-in-head line breaks like
> > 							ret_val =
> > 							    leaf_shift_left(tb,
> > 									    tb->
> > 									    lnum
> > 									    [0],
> > 									    tb->
> > 									    lbytes
> > 									    -
> > 									    1);
> > in addition to obscenely long lines (and yes, it is a real-world example).

btw: checkpatch does suggest refactoring when there are
6+ indent tabs with an if/while/for/do/switch statement.
so it already does bleat around there.

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