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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 20:45:31 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> Another might be to limit variable name length to something
> shorter than say 10 characters.

10? We have a few cases of variables over 100 (not sure how you are supposed
to use them with an 80 character max line length). Current longest is:

eOpenLogicalChannelAck_reverseLogicalChannelParameters_multiplexParameters_h2250LogicalChannelParameters

at 104 characters.

-Tony
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