Hi Tobin, On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Tobin C. Harding <m...@tobin.cc> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 07:53:18AM -0700, Stephen Brennan wrote: >> Simply break down some long lines and tab-indent them. > > Hi Stephen, > > Welcome to the Linux kernel. Great that you have put in a patch, you are, > however, unlikely to see > success fixing 'line over 80' warnings. There are a bunch of arguments for > and against the line over > 80 limit, a web search will surely show them to you. The TL;DR is that it > these changes do not > _really_ improve the readability of the code, they are just changes to quiet > the static analysis > tool.
I completely agree with you that the end target is more readable code and that lines over 80 char is only a symptom but I do think in this case there is something useful to do. Perhaps, if Stephen is willing, re-write the code to be more readable by, for example, using a temp variable for the register address, and in doing so both making the code more readable as well as treating the symptom? Thanks, Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef Chief Coffee Drinker "If you take a class in large-scale robotics, can you end up in a situation where the homework eats your dog?" -- Jean-Baptiste Queru
