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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Paul Mundt wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:12:24PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 23:29 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu 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.

I like this. Except I think the indent test should count spaces too some 
way. Or do we already warn about excessive space that should be tabs?

		Linus