Andrew Lunn wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 04:22:24PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
Documentation/CodingStyle sets a strongly prefered limit of 80 characters per line in "Chapter 2: Breaking long lines and strings".
Strings must be broken into smaller parts and long statements must be rewritten.
Hi Sven
This rules seems to be in dispute. I've seen comments that this should not be done since it can prevent a grep -r from finding the string when it is split over multiple lines.
But as you said, we repeatedly get patches from people trying to remove these checkpatch warnings.....
So we need a compromise. Overall i like what you have done.
Thanks for these great comments. I will look again over the "Reduce max characters on a line to 80" patches and submit v2 version of them later.
Best regards, Sven