Re: [PATCH] Staging: iio: Fix some character line limit coding style issues

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Sat Nov 07 2015 - 15:40:59 EST


On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 10:02:04AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 19:30 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The original is easier to read, sorry. Checkpatch is a tool not the
> > king of the world to obeyed at all times.
>
> Completely agree.
>
> Perhaps there could be some comment indicators added
> to tell checkpatch to ignore certain warnings like
> 80 columns.

Applying or rejecting this patch was an easy call so it doesn't cause
decision fatigue or drain my emotions. I feel like these patches are
instructional so people learn not to trust tools. Checkpatch.pl is fine
as-is.

regards,
dan carpenter
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