On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 22:33 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hmmm on the current v4l-dvb tree, the command > > > > $ v4l/scripts/checkpatch.pl --no-tree --strict \ > > -f linux/drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c > > > > yields warnings about pre-existing >80 column lines and > > LINUX_VERSION_CODE checks. > > > > Was there something else? > > No, that's what I'm talking about. I figured if you wanted to split > the CX18_ERR messages to fit on 80 columns, that is really at your > discretion, not mine. I can certainly do it, of course, but I > personally believe it's one of those cases where it is better to not > split them. Ah. No I wouldn't bother. The LKML has some churn on checkpatch's 80 column warning in the past few days: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/17/208 In that thread Joe Perches posted a compromise: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/18/3 I'll wait and see how it comes out. BTW I have got unsubscribe from the LKML - way too many emails in my inbox. Regards, Andy > Devin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html