# Re: \[PATCH\] batman-adv: checkpatch cleanup - remove lines longer than 80 chars

- From: David Miller \<hidden\>
- Date: 2011-12-20 19:02:09 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2011/12/10885306
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/batman/2011/12/10885306/t.md

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From: Marek Lindner <redacted>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:59:41 +0800

> On Wednesday, December 21, 2011 02:32:30 David Miller wrote:
>> From: Marek Lindner <redacted>
>> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:38:24 +0800
>> 
>> > The long line was introduced with b26e478f8f.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <redacted>
>> 
>> I'm not applying this.
>> 
>> I tell people to make sure arguments line up correctly to the
>> openning parenthesis on the previous line, and that is what is
>> happening here.
> 
> I am not against lining up the arguments but what about checkpatch ? Are we 
> going to ignore the complaints or is this line limit about to be changed ?

Refactor the code so that both constraints can be satisfied.

Is this so hard to understand?
```