Linus Torvalds wrote:
So do cleanups _separately_ from movement.
Definitely. Anything else makes review more difficult, by obscuring
changes with movement.
Quite frankly, I personally am considering removing "checkpatch.pl". That
thing is just a nazi dream. That hard-coded 80-character limit etc is just
bad taste.
Dammit, code cleanliness is not about "automated and mindless slavish
following of rules". A process that is too inflexible is a *bad* process.
I'd much rather have a few 80+ character lines than stupid and unreadable
line wrapping just because the line hit 87 characters in length.
I don't think checkpatch should be removed, but the 80-column complaint
is -way- too obnoxious and stupid-simple.
This bugs me like the myriad recent Documentation/CodingStyle proposed
patches... It's STYLE dammit. Sometimes it's best to /not/ lock down
everything into a rule. There is such a thing as specifying too much.
Jeff
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