Re: [PATCH 6/9] nvme-apple: Add initial Apple SoC NVMe driver

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Apr 04 2022 - 17:27:47 EST


On 4/4/22 9:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:57:33AM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
>> The kernel hard limit is 100-character lines, not 80-character lines.
>> Maintainers for existing drivers are certainly free to stick to 80 chars
>> if they like it that way, but I don't see why we should still be
>> enforcing that for new code. See bdc48fa11e46.
>
> Because 100 is completely utterly unreadable if is not for individual
> lines like strings, and that is actually how Linus stated it in
> CodingStyle.
>
> Your code as-is is completely unreadable and will not go into
> drivers/nvme/ in that form.

Please reconsider how you phrase these objections. Saying the code is
"completely unreadable" because it's _1_ character over your hard limit
is just nonsense, and not a very productive way to deal with this.

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Jens Axboe