checkpatch: categorize some long line length checks
Many lines of code extend beyond the maximum line length. Some of these are possibly justified by use type. For instance: structure definitions where comments are added per member like: struct foo { type member; /* some long description */ And lines that don't fit the typical logging message style where a string constant is used like: SOME_MACRO(args, "Some long string"); Categorize these long line types so that checkpatch can use a command-line --ignore=<type> option to avoid emitting some long line warnings. One of the existing checkpatch exclusions allowed kernel-doc argument documentation to exceed 80 columns because old versions of kernel-doc required single line documentation. The requirement was removed in 2009 so remove that exclusion. Add documentation to make the test a bit clearer. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Cc: Michael Shuey <shuey@purdue.edu> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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