Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: binder.c: Fixed 80 characters warningsfrom checkpatch.pl

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Oct 02 2013 - 00:58:01 EST


On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:46:44PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 21:39 -0400, Mathieu Rhéaume wrote:
> > Fixed a lot of warnings from checkpatch.pl about the 80 characters per line limitation.
>
> I'd prefer
> s/binder_user_error/binder_user_err/
> or
> s/binder_user_error/binder_err/
>
> without doing the strange wrapping
>
> checkpatch will then exclude these long line formats from
> line length checking.
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c b/drivers/staging/android/binder.c
> []
> > @@ -663,7 +663,8 @@ static struct binder_buffer *binder_alloc_buf(struct binder_proc *proc,
> > ALIGN(offsets_size, sizeof(void *));
> >
> > if (size < data_size || size < offsets_size) {
> > - binder_user_error("%d: got transaction with invalid size %zd-%zd\n",
> > + binder_user_error(
> > + "%d: got transaction with invalid size %zd-%zd\n",
> > proc->pid, data_size, offsets_size);
>
> IMO - not an improvement
>

I agree, checkpatch is a guide, not a hard and fast rule. For stuff
like this, it gets the line length wrong, so it's safe to leave it
alone.

greg k-h
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