Tanju, some additional hints. First of all, please don't send cleanup patches to address checkpatch --file complaints about overly long lines. It's generally not worth the code churn. Secondly for code that *you* are writing, think about why you have lines which are exceeding the line width in the first place. Is it because code is being nested too deeply, and perhaps some judicious function refactoring with good function names might make the code clearer? Would adding some temporary variables that are judiciously named make the code look clearer? The rules about "thou shalt never have lines which exceed 78 characters" are rules of thumb. The high level goal is to make the code more readable and easier to understand, since good code is maintainable code. And sometimes it's not just about where to split lines of code but whether there is a better way to structure the code so that long lines aren't needed in the first place. Cheers, - Ted
