The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: allow control over line length warning, default remains 80 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-allow-control-over-line-length-warning-default-remains-80.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: allow control over line length warning, default remains 80 Some projects might want a longer line length so allow a command line --max-line-length=n control over the long line warnings. The default line length is 80. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Constantine Shulyupin <const@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-control-over-line-length-warning-default-remains-80 scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-control-over-line-length-warning-default-remains-80 +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ my %ignore_type = (); my @ignore = (); my $help = 0; my $configuration_file = ".checkpatch.conf"; +my $max_line_length = 80; sub help { my ($exitcode) = @_; @@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ Options: -f, --file treat FILE as regular source file --subjective, --strict enable more subjective tests --ignore TYPE(,TYPE2...) ignore various comma separated message types + --max-line-length=n set the maximum line length, if exceeded, warn --show-types show the message "types" in the output --root=PATH PATH to the kernel tree root --no-summary suppress the per-file summary @@ -107,6 +109,7 @@ GetOptions( 'strict!' => \$check, 'ignore=s' => \@ignore, 'show-types!' => \$show_types, + 'max-line-length=i' => \$max_line_length, 'root=s' => \$root, 'summary!' => \$summary, 'mailback!' => \$mailback, @@ -1760,15 +1763,15 @@ sub process { # check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|s|S|pl|sh)$/); -#80 column limit +#line length limit if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ && $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ && !($line =~ /^\+\s*$logFunctions\s*\(\s*(?:(KERN_\S+\s*|[^"]*))?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ || $line =~ /^\+\s*"[^"]*"\s*(?:\s*|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/) && - $length > 80) + $length > $max_line_length) { WARN("LONG_LINE", - "line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr); + "line over $max_line_length characters\n" . $herecurr); } # Check for user-visible strings broken across lines, which breaks the ability _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch printk-boot_delay-should-only-affect-output.patch checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-line-continuations.patch checkpatch-warn-about-using-config_experimental.patch checkpatch-remove-reference-to-feature-removal-scheduletxt.patch checkpatch-consolidate-if-foo-barfoo-checks-and-add-debugfs_remove.patch checkpatch-allow-control-over-line-length-warning-default-remains-80.patch kstrto-add-documentation.patch simple_strto-annotate-function-as-obsolete.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html