[dm-devel] [PATCH] Drop 80-character limit in checkpatch.pl
Jiri Kosina
jkosina at suse.cz
Tue Dec 22 15:10:44 UTC 2009
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > Example picked totally at random:
> >
> > set_le_ih_k_offset(ih,
> > le_ih_k_offset(ih) +
> > (tb->
> > lbytes <<
> > (is_indirect_le_ih
> > (ih) ? tb->tb_sb->
> > s_blocksize_bits -
> > UNFM_P_SHIFT :
> > 0)));
> >
> > See how everything is nicely aligned to 80 cols?
> >
> >
> > Generally, don't look at this function after having a good lunch you want
> > to keep. You have been warned.
> >
> This isn't a valid example, as it wasn't written by a human. This is the
> result of Lindent being run blindly on the file and nothing more.
>
> Try again.
But having hard rule imposed on everyone to stick with 80-char rule makes
people to do exactly this kind of things (blindly running indent -l80 and
believing that it makes the code more readable because it is
CodingStyle-compliant(tm)).
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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