From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
apw@canonical.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-doc <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: make the line length warnings match the coding style document
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:09:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201210200930.GB7338@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3f1d9de2e5a61588f64e69a1309968d84a2dd12.camel@perches.com>
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:05:04PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Also, given the ever increasing average identifier length, strict
> adherence to 80 columns is sometimes just not possible without silly
> visual gymnastics. The kernel now has quite a lot of 30+ character
> length function names, constants, and structs.
maybe checkpatch should warn for identifiers that are 30+ characters
long? address the problem at its source ..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-10 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-10 8:22 [PATCH] checkpatch: make the line length warnings match the coding style document Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-10 20:05 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-10 20:09 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-12-10 21:27 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-22 4:08 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-22 13:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-22 16:22 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-23 8:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
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