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

[Paul Mundt <lethal linux-sh org>]

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