Re: [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Change long line warning to 105 chars

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Fri Dec 18 2009 - 00:57:28 EST


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:12:24PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 23:29 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Yeah, but I respectfully submit that if the regexp '^\t{6}' matches a non-
> > continuation line, it's probably in its rights to whinge.
> > grep -r -P '^\t{7:}(?!(.*,$|.*\);$))' . | more
> > produces a whole lot of "this can't end well" output.
>
> I think this is a good test to add to checkpatch.
>
> Add 105 character long line WARN test
> Add 80 character long line STRICT test
> Add 6+ leading indent tabs test, consider restructuring
>
This looks like a reasonable compromise.
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