Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754662Ab3IZC6P (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:58:15 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:35487 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188Ab3IZC6O (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:58:14 -0400 Message-ID: <5243A29C.6080009@ahsoftware.de> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:57:32 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130712 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: Bjorn Helgaas , Peter Senna Tschudin , Dan Carpenter , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: checkpatch guide for newbies References: <20130923090100.GE6192@mwanda> <5241CB44.8080004@ahsoftware.de> <52420DF1.7060108@ahsoftware.de> <20130926021130.GD13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <5243A165.2060204@ahsoftware.de> In-Reply-To: <5243A165.2060204@ahsoftware.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 21 Am 26.09.2013 04:52, schrieb Alexander Holler: > I'm aware of people which do nest 8 levels deep just to avoid a return, > break or goto. > > But trying to limit that by limiting the line length is like ... > (choose your own own misguided comparison, it's too late for me I > currently only meorize some of those which don't make sense in english) But I'm still able to offer a solution: ;) limit the number of tabs, not the line length (at least not to 80). Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/