Re: [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Fri Dec 18 2009 - 09:28:33 EST


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx writes:

> Yeah, but I respectfully submit that if the regexp '^\t{6}' matches a non-
> continuation line, it's probably in its rights to whinge.

Yes, but don't make it a hard error, only a suggestion that something is
probably really wrong.

> fs/reisersfs/do_balan.c, lines 460-477 (note: 3 leading tabs elided)
>
> leaf_paste_entries(&bi,
> n +
> item_pos
> -
> ret_val,
> l_pos_in_item,
> 1,
> (struct
> reiserfs_de_head
> *)
> body,
> body
> +
> DEH_SIZE,
> tb->
> insert_size
> [0]
> );
>
> Yes, that used to be 24 more columns to the right. Gaak.

Precisely. It's a clear show of the damage hard rules like that do.
I can't even tell how the code should be fixed and if the simple merging
would do, since I can't really imagine how it would look like :-)
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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