Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/coding-style: Allow 100 column lines

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat May 30 2020 - 19:16:09 EST


On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 16:14 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On May 29, 2020, at 5:12 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Change the maximum allowed line length to 100 from 80.
>
> What is the benefit/motivation for changing this? The vast majority
> of files are wrapped at 80 columns, and if some files start being
> wrapped at 100 columns they will either display poorly on 80-column
> terminals, or a lot of dead space will show in 100-column terminals.

YA Linus bleat in this thread.
I don't much care one way or any other.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wj3iGQqjpvc+gf6+C29Jo4COj6OQQFzdY0h5qvYKTdCow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

and

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjR0H3+2ba0UUWwoYzYBH0GX9yTf5dj2MZyo0xvyzvJnA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/