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

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Message-ID: <1a655e27fe1ac348ca98dd3f703270741311e458.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 30 May 2020 16:15:57 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        NetFilter <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch/coding-style: Allow 100 column lines

On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 16:14 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On May 29, 2020, at 5:12 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> 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@mail.gmail.com/

and

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