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Message-ID: <20150409155843.GB2097@openwall.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 18:58:43 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Coding Style
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 08:58:42PM +0800, Kai Zhao wrote:
> Even though
> Kernel style states that "Never break user-visible strings such as printk
> messages even it exceeds column 80" , the checkpatch.pl can't find this
> problem, since the situation maybe complex. I think it would be better to
> manually review these strings.
FWIW, while I understand the rationale behind this rule, I dislike it.
It looks like I'm in the minority, so I won't object to this rule in
jumbo, but I'm not eager to introduce it in core.
Alexander
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