linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] agents: add coding style documentation and rules

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Message-ID: <20250730074810.01903973@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 07:48:10 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
 corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org,
 josh@...htriplett.org, konstantin@...uxfoundation.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] agents: add coding style documentation and rules

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:31:35 +0200 Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> I pop up there a lot, but there is no confusion. I am (and maybe we are
> all?) well aware that checkpatch hard limit is 100 as explained also here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/df2e466a-cdaa-4263-ae16-7bf56c0edf21@kernel.org/
> 
> But the coding style still says that preferred length limit is 80.
> Checkpatch is not a coding style. Coding style document is describing
> the coding style...
> 
> People trust checkpatch way too much, thus its hard limit was raised.
> Some maintainers also agree with that, yet it does not invalidate what
> coding style document says.

Hear, hear!