Re: [PATCH] scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat May 26 2007 - 01:56:34 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:58:26 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Make the "cleanfile" and "cleanpatch" script warn about long lines,
>> by default lines whose visual width exceeds 79 characters.
>>
>> Per suggestion from Auke Kok.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> scripts/cleanfile | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> scripts/cleanpatch | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>
> This functionality wholly duplicates the patch-sanity-checking script
> which Andy, Randy and others are working on.
>
> The plan is to merge that script into the tree and, once it's looking
> reasonably accurate, we wire a copy of it up to the email lists so that it
> autonags patch-senders over the usual trivial junk. Think of it as an
> akpm-over-SMTP server.

LOL.

-hpa
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