[PATCH 01/24] ath6kl: add bmi.c

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Thu Jul 14 07:38:15 UTC 2011


On 07/14/2011 10:33 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 09:46 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> On 07/13/2011 03:19 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> Add this patch to checkpatch?
>>> I'll submit it to Andrew Morton later.
>> Awesome! I had no idea checkpatch supports this. Just tested this with
>> ath6kl and I don't get long line warnings with long log messages.
> 
> Note that this doesn't let you have arbitrarily
> long lines just because it's a printk or any other
> logging function.  Only the format portion of the
> printk may exceed 80 columns.
> 
> Any additional arguments for the printk must not
> start after or exceed 80 columns.

Thanks, that's good to know. And it's a very nice feature. I also hate
long lines but splitting log messages doesn't really make any sense.

Kalle



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