Re: [PATCH] linux/kernel.h: break long lines

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 01:45:30PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> static inline int __must_check
> kstrtou64_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t count, unsigned int base, u64 *res)

Yeah, had already typed that one in the reply but then opted for not
mentioning it because it is a bit controversial with maintainers. :)

> Which yes, is still longer than 80 characters.  But this is where
> blindly following coding guidelines as if they are fundamentalist
> biblical doctrine is not really a great idea.  The goal is to make the
> code easier to read, and very often it's important to apply _judgement_.
> (Which is one of the reasons why I generally don't really like newbies
> trying to apply checkpatch.pl to existing source files.)

That's basically what I was trying to say but your formulation is much
better.

Thx.

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