Re: [PATCH] scripts/Lindent: increase the maximum line length to 100

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2020-07-03 at 16:08 +0800, Zong Li wrote:
> As the patch 'bdc48fa11e46 ("checkpatch/coding-style: deprecate
> 80-column warning")', increase the default limit to 100 characters,
> we also increase the maximum line length to 100 for indent script.

I'd prefer to delete Lindent instead.

Also any reformatting tool like this will
_always_ use up to whatever the maximum
line length is rather than use a preferred
length of 80 and and only use the allowed
maximum length of 100 when necessary for
human readability.

> Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/Lindent | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Lindent b/scripts/Lindent
> index 1688c44c2df6..11f14a4f2048 100755
> --- a/scripts/Lindent
> +++ b/scripts/Lindent
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  #!/bin/sh
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  
> -PARAM="-npro -kr -i8 -ts8 -sob -l80 -ss -ncs -cp1"
> +PARAM="-npro -kr -i8 -ts8 -sob -l100 -ss -ncs -cp1"
>  
>  RES=`indent --version | cut -d' ' -f3`
>  if [ "$RES" = "" ]; then