[ofa-general] Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

[Jeff Garzik]

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
>> I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are 
>> anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines
> 
> Perhaps we should increase line length limit, 132 should be fine.

I think checkpatch is useful, but I've agreed from the beginning that 
the line length complaint is completely silly.

If a driver is full of lines of length >80, that's a problem.  If it's 
just a few, that's more of a developer decision based on the individual 
line of code.

	Jeff