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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 23 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst index acb2f1b36350..17a8e584f15f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst @@ -84,15 +84,20 @@ Get a decent editor and don't leave whitespace at the end of lines. Coding style is all about readability and maintainability using commonly available tools. -The limit on the length of lines is 80 columns and this is a strongly -preferred limit. - -Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks, unless -exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide -information. Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and -are placed substantially to the right. The same applies to function headers -with a long argument list. However, never break user-visible strings such as -printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them. +The preferred limit on the length of a single line is 80 columns. + +Statements longer than 80 columns should be broken into sensible chunks, +unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does +not hide information. + +Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and are +are placed substantially to the right. A very commonly used style +is to align descendants to a function open parenthesis. + +These same rules are applied to function headers with a long argument list. + +However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages because +that breaks the ability to grep for them. 3) Placing Braces and Spaces diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index eac40f0abd56..b83be177edf0 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ my %ignore_type = (); my @ignore = (); my $help = 0; my $configuration_file = ".checkpatch.conf"; -my $max_line_length = 80; +my $max_line_length = 100; my $ignore_perl_version = 0; my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0; my $min_conf_desc_length = 4; @@ -97,9 +97,11 @@ Options: --types TYPE(,TYPE2...) show only these comma separated message types --ignore TYPE(,TYPE2...) ignore various comma separated message types --show-types show the specific message type in the output - --max-line-length=n set the maximum line length, if exceeded, warn + --max-line-length=n set the maximum line length, (default $max_line_length) + if exceeded, warn on patches + requires --strict for use with --file --min-conf-desc-length=n set the min description length, if shorter, warn - --tab-size=n set the number of spaces for tab (default 8) + --tab-size=n set the number of spaces for tab (default $tabsize) --root=PATH PATH to the kernel tree root --no-summary suppress the per-file summary --mailback only produce a report in case of warnings/errors @@ -3240,8 +3242,10 @@ sub process { if ($msg_type ne "" && (show_type("LONG_LINE") || show_type($msg_type))) { - WARN($msg_type, - "line over $max_line_length characters\n" . $herecurr); + my $msg_level = \&WARN; + $msg_level = \&CHK if ($file); + &{$msg_level}($msg_type, + "line length of $length exceeds $max_line_length columns\n" . $herecurr); } } |