Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: make the line length warnings match the coding style document

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:05:04PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Also, given the ever increasing average identifier length, strict
> adherence to 80 columns is sometimes just not possible without silly
> visual gymnastics.  The kernel now has quite a lot of 30+ character
> length function names, constants, and structs.

maybe checkpatch should warn for identifiers that are 30+ characters
long?  address the problem at its source ..