On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:50:00PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > On 10/22/2014 06:21 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:56:47PM -0500, Brian Vandre wrote: > >>This fixes the 2 checkpatch.pl warnings: > >>WARNING: line over 80 characters > >> > >please check your patch with --strict option of checkpatch.pl , and you will > >get : > >"Alignment should match open parenthesis" . > > Those checkpatch warnings are suggestions, not hard requirements. > The idea is to improve code legibility, but if the change has the > adverse effect the warning can and should be ignored. Also when > making a change you should keep the existing indention style of a > file. > > - Lars
I think my patch does follow the style of the original file. If you run checkpatch.pl --strict on the whole file you will get many open parenthesis warnings. I believe it does make it slightly more legibile. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
